September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
...emphasises the importance of international cooperation in planetary defence efforts. In the recently released National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan report, international cooperation is one of five strategic goals identified...
October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... space surveillance and tracking of space debris (objects) that circle Earth; providing space weather reports (see next section); and detecting near Earth objects that could cause damage on Earth. Through the observations made, the space-based...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... affect space-borne infrastructure or endanger human life or health near-Earth objects: detecting natural objects such as asteroids and comets which can potentially impact Earth space surveillance and tracking: tracking active and inactive satellites...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... Rubin Observatory are deliberately widening their fields of view to enable more efficient searches for targets such as near-Earth objects (NEOs) and exoplanets. With the simultaneous increase in satellite numbers, the chances of a satellite entering...
30 December 2016
NEOWISE spots two new objects heading our way
... northern hemisphere during the first week of 2017 and according to Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, "has a good chance of becoming visible through a good pair...
13 September 2019
Newly discovered comet could be our second interstellar visitor
... the Sun at that distance," said Davide Farnocchia of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at JPL. "The high velocity indicates not only that the object likely originated from outside our solar system, but also that...
