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...
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...
Featured on Scott Manley's popular YouTube Channel: "The latest update to the asteroid discovery video, now at UHDTV resolutions and with a voiceover explaining what's going on. Thanks to the Lowell Observatory and Minor Planet Center for supplying the data used to create this." Scott Manley YouTube...
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...
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...
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...
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...