Planetary Defense

How Many Asteroids Will Vera Rubin Observatory Find? We Have An Estimate – By Dr. Ed Lu

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08 May, 2021
DART Asteroid Deflection Launch Date Pushed to Secondary Window

Last week, NASA announced they will be pushing the launch date for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) from summer 2021 to the secondary launch window of November 24, 2021 to February 15, 2022.  Even though the launch was pushed, this does not change the...

26 February, 2021
Hera Mission Funded By Danica Remy

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...

10 December, 2019
Danica Remy Interviewed by NBCNews.com

Danica Remy, B612 President, was interviewed by NBCNews.com about the recent asteroid flybys. Danica highlighted that the risk to Earth from asteroids is small in the short-term, but it is inevitable in the long-term and for the first time in human history we have the technology...

16 August, 2019
Dr. Ed Lu Interviewed on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday

Asteroid Institute Director Dr. Ed Lu was recently featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talked to Dr. Lu about the meteor that recently exploded over the Bering Sea. You can listen to the interview and read a transcript of their discussion here....

22 April, 2019
Dr. Ed Lu interviewed in Popular Science

Popular Science interviewed B612 co-founder Ed Lu about the meteor that recently exploded over the Bering Sea. The meteor exploded more than 10 miles above the surface of the Earth over an unpopulated region, but Ed noted that is served as a solid reminder that “the...

27 March, 2019
2018 | B612 Foundation | Annual Report

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30 October, 2018
NASA Announces New ATLAS Telescopes

NASA recently announced it is supporting the building of two additional ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescopes to be built in the Southern hemisphere. This is good news as it will fill in the gaps since there are regions in the southern sky currently not...

21 August, 2018
Salon.com Article on Asteroid Institute Work

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...

01 August, 2018
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