October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
... Soyuz TMA-17M is transported to the launch site. In December 2014, Hayabusa-2 was launched on its way to a C-type Near Earth Object, asteroid 1999 JU3 In its revision two years later, specific projects were listed. They included satellite...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... because it was in their mutual interest to increase detection and characterisation of asteroids. NASA has a mandate to find Near-Earth Objects (NEO), and Planetary Resources is looking to learn more about asteroids that may be of material value. The...
April 2018
Developing Mars
...Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and exploRation). DE-STAR aims to deflect near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets that pose a credible risk of Earth impact. The DE-STAR engineering team has previously characterised the impulse...
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...
30 June 2015
Debating Asteroid Day: NEOs, Dr. Brian May, the Catalina Sky Survey and more
... Chelyabinsk meteor came out of seemingly nowhere back in 2013, reminding the world of the destructive power potential of near earth objects (NEOs) that sometimes find their way into our atmosphere. As former NASA Astronaut Ed Lu wrote in ROOM this...
30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
... ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany. ESA already has a hands-on approach for dealing with the threat of a collision by a near-Earth object (NEOs) and has started to build a co-ordination centre in Paris where data on NEOs is available to European researchers...
