August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... and Development (OECD) and suggested that a new economic activity for our scientists and engineers should be ‘Planetary Defence’. It is time for those leading our space agencies to consider what technologies they might conceive and implement...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... of permafrost near the surface. Furrows feed meltwater into a channel that’s cut into the crater wall. Planetary defence by high-powered laser: material ablated off a would-be impactor alters its trajectory by conservation of momentum, to avert...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
...Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG) to help coordinate a better defence against asteroids, we are a long way from a global space governance system for planetary defence. In fact, as UNISPACE+50 prepares to convene in 2018 what is striking is that...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... option would also use advanced technologies for the capture and control of so-called non-cooperative objects. Planetary defence When the ARM robotic vehicle is in close proximity to the target asteroid, NASA can demonstrate basic techniques...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... Laboratory (APL), will test the feasibility of diverting the path of an asteroid. It will be a ground-breaking experiment in planetary defence techniques. AIM itself will perform detailed before-and-after comparisons on the structure of the body...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
...-made space objects (i.e. space debris) or from the impact of large asteroids or comets (i.e. planetary defence). Members of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection (see - https://cosparhq.cnes.fr/scientific-structure/ppp). COSPAR Panel Implementing...
