B612 Sentinel Space Telescope
B-roll simulation of the Sentinel Space Telescope as it orbits around the sun, including conceptual orbits of inner solar system asteroids....
05 September, 2013
Asteroid Institute
Detecting asteroids, meteors takes on new urgency
Earth may have survived its close encounters with an asteroid and a meteor Friday, but the episodes focused new attention on gaps in astronomers' ability to identify smaller space rocks like these capable of inflicting widespread destruction. Efforts to better identify those threats are underway, including...
20 February, 2013
A chance to prevent future asteroid impacts
Today's meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk is a reminder that the Earth orbits the Sun in a shooting gallery of asteroids, and that these asteroids sometimes hit the Earth. Later today, a separate and larger asteroid, 2012 DA14, will narrowly miss the Earth passing beneath the...
17 February, 2013
TEDxMarin Talk with Dr. Ed Lu: Changing the Course of the Solar System
A NASA Astronaut -- with a compelling new mission to change the course of the solar system. Dr. Lu served as a NASA Astronaut for 12 years. He flew the Space Shuttle twice, the Russian Soyuz, and a 6-month tour on the International Space Station. Altogether...
02 November, 2012
Ball Aerospace & B612 Foundation Sign Contract for Sentinel Mission
BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 30, 2012 Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and the non-profit B612 Foundation have signed a contract for Ball to create prototype infrared imaging sensors for the Sentinel Mission, a deep space mission to protect Earth by providing early warning of threatening asteroids. Ball’s...
30 October, 2012
Private space telescope could boost asteroid mining
B612 Foundation's Sentinel should discover 500,000 near-Earth space rocks The nonprofit B612 Foundation's Sentinel space telescope should discover 500,000 near-Earth asteroids within 5 1/2 years of its planned 2017 or 2018 launch, B612 officials say. Some of those space rocks may pose a threat to our planet down...
10 October, 2012
B612 Foundation Receives New Funding and Strategic Support from Prominent Leaders in Business, Entertainment, Science, and Technology
MOMENTUM GROWS FOR FIRST PRIVATE DEEP SPACE MISSION TO MAP THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM AND TRACK ASTEROIDS POSING THREATS TO EARTH MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (September 19 2012) The world’s first privately funded deep space mission – SENTINEL – received major support this week from prominent members of...
19 September, 2012
B612 Sentinel: The First Privately-Funded Deep Space Mission
This morning at the California Academy of Sciences, a team of former astronauts, space scientists, NASA alums, and other concerned citizens of the solar system announced an unprecedented initiative to place a solar-orbiting telescope in deep space. The B612 Foundation wants to map the inner...
01 August, 2012
Rock On
ASTEROID strikes are the ultimate in low-probability, high-impact events. NASA may soon have help—or competition—from the private non-profit B612 Foundation building the Sentinel spacecraft. And Sentinel, if it flies, won't cost taxpayers a penny. Read the Article: "Rock On" The Economist (July 7, 2012) ...
07 July, 2012