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...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Every Asteroid Institute hackathon brings our contributors together to work with high intensity on the most important goals for our software system. We wanted to build on the successes of our last hackathon in October 2019, where we...
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...
For the second year in a row, B612 sponsored the LSST Solar System Readiness Sprint, a convening of scientists ensuring the readiness of the scientific community to interpret LSST’s solar system data when it begins operation. One of the largest telescopes on Earth, the Large Synoptic...
By: Danica Remy, President Last week, an asteroid about 100 meters in diameter, Asteroid 2019 OK, sped past Earth at a distance of about 70,000 kilometers. The asteroid safely missed our planet, but at 70,000 kilometers, Asteroid 2019 OK came quite close - much closer than...
Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) recently hosted Asteroid Institute Astrodynamicists John Carrico and Mike Loucks on their podcast. AGI is a leader in creating software for the aerospace and defense industries. John and Mike go into the Asteroid Institute’s latest research on propagating asteroid orbits and predicting...
As an Asteroid Institute Researcher, I am studying how impacting asteroids need to be "nudged" (re: velocity change/ delta-v) to avoid hitting Earth. Through the Asteroid Decision Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) project, a Google cloud-based platform under development, I and colleagues simulate the impact avoidance of...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] We are pleased to share this year's annual progress report. As you’ll read, 2018 has been an important year for B612, the Asteroid Institute, and the field of asteroid science and education. We continue to leverage the investments...
B612 Asteroid Institute attended the LSST’s Solar System Science Collaboration meeting on July 10-12, 2018 at the University of Washington in Seattle. The B612 Asteroid Institute’s development of the Asteroid Decision and Analysis Mapping (ADAM) platform is largely motivated by the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey...
Salon.com recently posted an article on building a better asteroid warning system featuring interviews with B612 President Danica Remy and Asteroid Institute Astrodynamicist John Carrico. The article looks at B612’s partnership with Google Cloud and how cloud technology is necessary to provide a more advanced warning...