27 June 2017
New Roll-Out Solar Array tested at the ISS
... of solar arrays, NASA has also been eyeing up the technology for use in missions such as the agency’s Asteroid Redirect Mission. Although the Trump administration has called for the cancellation of the project, if it were to get...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
... if it collides with a smaller NEO, which we can’t even see. We can call this the ‘Brownian motion of asteroids’. This could cause an asteroid to be sent in the direction of Earth. The likelihood of such an event happening isn’t great. But if we want...
December 2014
Finding NEO
...solar system. About 20 per cent of NEOs, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), are in orbits that pass sufficiently close to Earth’s... Sentry that continually scans the most current asteroid catalogue for possibilities of future impact with Earth...
22 September 2017
OSIRIS-REx makes closest Earth approach today
... a slingshot to fling it on direct course towards asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx, which stands for Origins, Spectral...map Bennu’s geological properties, as well as a search for asteroid plumes and natural satellites will start from October 2018 and last ...
21 February 2019
Hayabusa2 starts descent towards Ryugu
... a 5g metal tantalum pellet at 350 metres per second into the asteroid’s surface and attempt an off-world heist by grabbing dust and grains..., in an interview with the BBC. “It's possible such asteroids may have brought to Earth both the water and the ...
09 September 2016
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on its way to study Bennu after successful launch Thursday
.... The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is expected to get close to Bennu in August 2018, when it will begin studying the asteroid. If all goes according to plan, OSIRIS-REx will study Bennu for two years and then make...
