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 ...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
... each with a mirror 8.2 metres in diameter. Images of objects as faint as magnitude 30 have been imaged, this is some..., will be to locate and catalogue most of the larger near Earth objects and assess their potential to threaten life on our planet. ...
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...
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...
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...
24 January 2022
Solar sail mission will intercept and study small asteroid
...GE was first observed on 12 March 2020 by the University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey as part of its search for near-Earth objects for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office. NEA Scout is a science and technology demonstration mission based...
