The Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform, developed by the Asteroid Institute, is an advanced open-source astrodynamics platform designed to enable the discovery, mapping, and analysis of asteroids. ADAM leverages cloud computing to handle vast amounts of astronomical data, allowing scientists to track and understand the orbits of asteroids with high precision.
Astrodynamics at Scale on the Cloud
Using Kubernetes for job orchestration and BigQuery for data handling, ADAM offers users faster, more efficient computations.
Advanced Algorithms and Tools
ADAM provides precise orbital propagators, precovery and advanced discovery algorithms such as THOR (Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery), to discover and track asteroids without relying on traditional tracklets.
Collaboration + Innovation
Open-source libraries make ADAM’s powerful asteroid discovery tools accessible to a global community, fostering collaboration, innovation, and transparency.
The ADAM platform, is the creation of B612 Foundation’s Asteroid Institute. Our programs are made possible thanks to the generous support of our donors and our partners at Google, University of Washington and the DiRAC Institute.