April 2019
Cleaning up space
... for commercial missions involving rendezvous, proximity operations and orbital servicing. Delegates at a threeday international Near-Earth Object (NEO) and Debris Detection Conference held at ESA’s ESOC centre in Germany this January. Business...
03 February 2016
Luxembourg announces plan to mine asteroids
... satellite firms, SES. Luxembourg now aims to help establish a space industry by mining ‘near-Earth objects’ (NEOs) for their metal and rare-Earth material content by collaborating with US and European commercial partners. Mining asteroids may appear...
22 December 2021
Scientists present the first-ever analysis of samples retrieved from Ryugu
... two years ago. Their results show that the near-Earth object is a pristine, very dark and very porous ... samples appear to be among the most primordial materials available here on Earth for study. Just over a year ago, samples collected by Hayabusa2...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... for scientific large area images used to search for Near Earth Objects (NEOs),” say the team. But its not just...to future generations have the right to an uncontaminated and undamaged Earth, including pure skies; they are entitled to its enjoyment as ...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... one million such asteroids in dangerous orbits actually exist. The Sentinel mission will discover and track near Earth objects. The challenge So, a little over a decade ago, I joined with Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart, planetary scientist...
16 March 2020
Porous nature of Ryugu suggests formation from fluffy particles, new study says
..., JAXA’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft had spent a year and half taking detailed observations of this potentially hazardous near-Earth object to learn more about its chemical and physical make-up. Ryugu is a carbonaceous or c-type asteroid, a common variety...
