October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
...orbit, to characterise DART’s kinetic impact and its consequences. The two missions are together known as the Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment mission (AIDA). In a new model of international cooperation, these two separate spacecraft are being...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
...by humans. These spacecraft have landed on Mars, comets and asteroids - and enabled humans to walk on the Moon. The ... when NASA wanted to improve the ability to find and track asteroids such as 164121 it decided to collaborate on the task. NASA...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... impact on Earth. Option A allows for demonstration of an ion beam deflection method to manoeuvre or possibly de-spin the small asteroid prior to capture.6 This method uses a beam of quasi-neutral plasma from the electric propulsion system to impinge...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... Hut to found an organization called the B612 Foundation. Our goal was to explore ways to deflect or destroy threatening asteroids. As asteroids orbit the Sun and the Earth orbits the Sun, our aim was to find the most...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
.... (A satellite or spacecraft is needed to conduct observations when the asteroid passes on the other side of the Sun). This meant it ... results of a mission sent to deflect the asteroid, because the asteroid was within 30 degrees of the Sun, and...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... rights in any celestial body (eg, a real property interest), but rather only recognises rights to resources extracted from an asteroid (a personal property interest). Such personal property interests are consistent with the OST which, as well as the...
