Leaders of the nonprofit B612 Foundation today took the wraps off a campaign to fund and launch a space telescope to hunt for potential killer asteroids — a campaign they portrayed as a cosmic civic improvement project. Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu, the foundation's chairman and CEO, estimated that...
San Francisco, CA, June 28, 2012 In a press conference at the California Academy of Sciences Thursday morning, the B612 Foundation unveiled its plans to build, launch, and operate the first privately funded deep space mission – SENTINEL – a space telescope to be placed in...
How the Sentinel (Asteroid Hunter) Mission will be the perfect storm in the first private deep space mission.There's no doubt about it that a properly designed, space-based observatory could rapidly find most of the near-Earth objects that could represent a potential threat to the Earth." Read...
To combat a space-based threat, try a space-based solution. Non-profit B612 Foundation steps up to fill the killer-asteroid monitoring gap. Read the Article: "Non-Profit Steps Up to Fill Killer-Asteroid Monitoring Gap" WIRED (June 28, 2012) ...
NASA Advisory Council Task Force on Planetary Defense found that the most effective way to map asteroid threats and meet goals of the George E. Brown Act is with an infrared telescope in a venus-like solar orbit....
The long anticipated Congressional hearing on NASA’s NEO Report to Congress was held. NASA’s stated position on many controversial elements of its Report were substantially moderated in comparison to the plain reading of its Report, there is as yet no indication that NASA will either...
B612 responds to NASA NEO report to Congress and points out technical flaws. NASA’s NEO report to Congress stirred considerable controversy due to both its rejection of Congress’s request for a recommended program to support the new Spaceguard Survey goal and its technically flawed deflection analysis....
NASA report to Congress on asteroid surveys and deflection stirred considerable controversy because it chose not to recommend a program to support the George E Brown survey goal and because of its technically flawed deflection analysis....
White papers and presentations submitted by B612 members to update Congress on progress detecting asteroids larger than 140 meters. These findings were presented at NASA NEO Workshop held in Vail CO, June 26-28, 2006 in response to the congressional requirement for an initial report on...