...for launch in 2028, is to advance efforts to defend our planet against near-Earth objects like asteroids and comets, specifically within 50 million kilometres of Earth’s orbit. NEO Surveyor will employ an infrared space telescope designed to discover...
...", Handberg says. Japan was one of the early leaders in Asian spaceflight, and started launching satellites to study comets in the 1980's. In 2003 the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Hayabusa probe, which successfully...
... in planning for disaster if the asteroid is indeed heading for a future impact with Earth. When asteroids and comets are discovered, uncertainties surround their exact location - sometimes for months or even years. This uncertainty is due...
... serious consideration of new space technology to protect the people of planet Earth from cosmic hazards that includes comets, potentially hazardous asteroids, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, and even orbital debris. In moving forward...