Google Cloud and Analytical Graphics Inc. (AGI) joined with Asteroid Institute to develop a cloud-based platform for tracking asteroid discoveries.

The two companies have become technology partners for the Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping project, or ADAM. The project aims to provide software infrastructure for analyzing trajectories of near-Earth objects. ADAM identifies potential threats, and presents scenarios for taking action.

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Read the June 2017 Press Release here. Asteroid Institute announces Google Cloud and AGI as new technology partners for the Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) project with Astrodynamicist John Carrico to lead development.