January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... in JAXA’s NOZOMI (Mars Explorer) and the first Hayabusa mission. Makoto is additionally interested in the issue of planetary defence, which concerns potential Earth impacts from celestial bodies. He is a member of the NEO (Near Earth Object) working...
08 September 2016
Close encounters of the asteroid kind: 2016 RB1 passes remarkably close to Earth
..., as many such asteroids are discovered quite late in their approach to Earth. A number of projects aimed at developing a viable planetary defence strategy have been suggested and implemented, including the Global Space Governance Study, the...
24 January 2022
Solar sail mission will intercept and study small asteroid
... Sky Survey as part of its search for near-Earth objects for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office. NEA Scout is a science and technology demonstration mission based ... and will gain important planetary defence insights about this class of NEA.
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
... retrofit, and servicing, possible active orbital debris removal from LEO, solar power satellites, space mining, planetary defence, space tourism, hypersonic transportation, and commercial activities in protospace (the area above commercial air space...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... Moon – this time in a totally different manner – would meet all these criteria. Additionally, it could help with planetary defence, which means protecting Earth from the hazards of impacting asteroids or comets. To venture into the unknown is in our...
05 March 2018
Asteroid tracking program adds Google Cloud and AGI as tech partners
... within the coming decade, last year the Asteroid Institute embarked upon a project to advance the field of planetary defence with advance cutting-edge technologies. This technology is in the shape of ADAM, an analytical tool to identify, track...
