AD LIVE watched by two million viewers and #asteroidday reached more than nine billion impressions with strategic support from B612 Foundation. On June 30th, individuals, astronomy groups, schools, museums and organizations from around the world came together, looked into the skies, and then shifted their gaze...
Meet Institute Researcher and University of Washington Graduate Student, Joachim Moeyens. Joachim is an Asteroid Institute Researcher and graduate student in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. Joachim is interested in big data and software driven solutions to problems in astronomy. During his...
The worldwide premiere of Apollo 9 & Beyond featuring Rusty Schweickart debuted on Asteroid Day TV, a broadcast of hundreds of asteroid programs. The premiere of Apollo 9 & Beyond featuring Rusty Schweickart debuted on Asteroid Day TV. Due to the COVID pandemic, Asteroid Day opted...
Meet ADAM Senior Engineer Carise Fernandez. Carise Fernandez is the lead software engineer working on the Asteroid Decision, Analysis, and Mapping (ADAM) platform at the B612 Asteroid Institute. She has worked at numerous startups building products in the cloud. Prior to joining the Asteroid Institute, Carise...
[caption id="attachment_26834" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Image credits: NASA/JPL[/caption] Asteroid Institute Senior Researcher studies the stability of an asteroid with an orbit closer to Sun than that of Venus. On 4 January 2020, the Zwicky Transient Facility discovered the first asteroid with an orbit closer to the Sun than...
Dr. Sarah Greenstreet’s research collaboration with DIRAC Institute at the University of Washington was published in the journal Icarus. In 2018, B612 launched the Asteroid Institute Research Fellows program in partnership with the DIRAC Institute at the University of Washington. In the two years after it...
Hank Grabowski is an Asteroid Institute Astrodynamicist and Principal Systems Engineer working on the Asteroid Decision Analysis and Mapping project (ADAM) at the Asteroid Institute. With a 20+ year history in the software and astrodynamics industry, Hank brings a wealth of experience with building scalable software...
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ESA’s Hera Mission funded, humanity is making progress on planetary defense! Last month, Europe’s space ministers gathered at Space19+ in Seville, Spain and approved ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for construction and launch, as part of the Agency’s broader planetary defense initiatives that aim to protect citizens...
Asteroid Institute Moving Astrodynamics at Scale Forward by Hank Grabowski A hackathon is a modern software development practice of bringing together a team to spend a couple of days focusing on a handful of specific goals. This helps focus efforts for a brief period of time, usually...