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...
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...
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...
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....
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...