Collaborate Disseminate
It’s the stuff of sci-fi disaster films. What do we do if an asteroid is on a collision course with our home planet? One option might be the use of brute force, sending a spacecraft to intervene in the asteroid’s trajectory to simply knock it off cours… Continue reading The unpredictabilities of NASA’s wild plan to ram an asteroid off course
NASA has launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission to demonstrate a possible way to deflect asteroids that could pose a threat to the Earth sometime in the future. Today at 1:21 am EST (06:21 GMT), the robotic probe lifted off atop a… Continue reading DART spacecraft is now on its way to crash into an asteroid
ESA has awarded €129.4 million of funding to the planetary defense mission Hera, which will observe the results of humanity’s first attempt to intentionally alter the orbit of a solar system asteroid. The mission could be the fist step along the road t… Continue reading ESA moves forward with Hera planetary defense mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) is working on a specially radiation-hardened computer to control its Hera deep-space probe on its task to observe the effects of the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission. Scheduled to launch… Continue reading ESA developing radiation-hardened computer for Hera mission
A University of Glasgow team explores the subtle art of capturing asteroids without killing everybody. Continue reading Scientists Map Out How to Nudge Small Asteroids into Earth’s Orbit