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...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... the NSF/DOE Large Synoptic Survey Telescope); enhancing prediction of and preparedness for space hazards, notably Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and space weather; and harnessing the small satellite revolution. At present, it is too early to tell what...
14 August 2019
Protesters block asteroid detection safety work
... Crater in the US state of Arizona was 40 to 50 km in diameter. Shortly after confirmation of 2006 QV89, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California announced what everyone wanted to hear: the...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... Overview”, AIAA SPACE 2014 Conference and Exposition, San Diego, CA, August 2014. 8 Yeomans, D., et al “Deflecting a Hazardous Near Earth Object”, presented at the 1st International Planetary Defense Conference, http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/pdc_paper...
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 ...
