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...
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...
29 June 2018
All things asteroid: Who, What, Where and When
... of an impact was predicted well ahead of the event itself,” said Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California about the boulder-sized asteroid designated...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... into new patterns It is also now understood that near-Earth objects are fragments of former asteroids ejected toward the inner ...well as a sample return. The third mission, the Near Earth Asteroid Scout CubeSat is currently in development as part ...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... or outward, even to the point of ejecting them from the solar system. We now know that the population of near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that have migrated inward due to the gravitational influence of the planets...
26 August 2020
LEO constellations will "fundamentally change" astronomy, warns new report
... of their intended 42,000+ mega constellation into low Earth orbit back in May 2019, astronomers got worried really... observations, such as searches for near-Earth objects (NEOs), distant Solar System objects, rare transients, exoplanet transits ...
