Articles tagged: Sean Blair

• October 2015 Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system

  If it gets the go-ahead, the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) will be the first spacecraft to visit a binary asteroid system and ESA’s first mission to a small body since Rosetta landed on a comet. With its micro lander and accompanying flock of ...

  • Asteroid Impact Mission
  • Churyumov–Gerasimenko
  • ESA
  • Ian Carnelli
  • Sean Blair
  Authors: Ian Carnelli     Sean Blair    
• September 2019 A new era in planetary defence missions

  ... (MMX) mission and the Coordination Lead on NASA’s DART mission. Asteroid 6899 Nancychabot is named in her honour. Sean Blair is a journalist and editor for the European Space Agency website. He studied at the University of St Andrews, Scotland...

  • DART
  • Didymos
  • Hera
  • NASA
  • planetary defence
  Authors: Nancy L Chabot     Sean Blair