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...
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...
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...
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...
With the space shuttle program over and private companies launching their own spaceships, it’s clear that nongovernment organizations are making a stir in America’s space race. Now the private sector is getting into the space telescope business, too. The first official entrant into this arena wants humanity...
Les astéroïdes sont-ils une menace majeure pour l'humanité? À en croire l'ancien astronaute de la Nasa Ed Lu, la chose ne fait aucun doute. Il a donc décidé de lancer jeudi, via sa fondation B612 - du nom de l'astéroïde dont est originaire le Petit...
The B612 Foundation announced the first privately Funded Deep Space Mission yesterday morning. It's called Sentinel, a half-meter infrared telescope designed to look for any asteroids whose orbits will cross the Earth's in the next hundred years, down to thirty meters in size. Construction is...
The idea of an asteroid slamming into Earth may sound like science fiction. But astrophysicists say that with hundreds of thousands of asteroids crossing our planet's orbit, the threat is very real. Host Stephanie Martin talks with Stanford Professor Scott Hubbard. He's overseeing the development a...
A large asteroid colliding with Earth may seem like a science fiction scenario, but there's reason to take it seriously. Hundreds of thousands of these bodies cross Earth's orbit – and the consequences of a direct hit by even one could be devastating. But a new...
Who will protect us from a killer asteroid? A team of ex-NASA astronauts and scientists thinks it's up to them. In a bold plan unveiled Thursday, the group wants to launch its own space telescope to spot and track small and mid-sized space rocks capable of...