The Asteroid Institute’s Spacecraft System Engineer, Jonny Dyer, presented a talk on the history and current state of the commercial spaceflight sector. Dr. Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart shared their perspectives on the future of the sector from their years of experience leading B612 and...
On September 18, 2006, Anousheh Ansari captured headlines around the world as the first female private space explorer. She also earned a place in history as the fourth private explorer to visit space and the first astronaut of Iranian descent. She blasted off for an...
Steve Jurvetson is a partner at DFJ. His current board responsibilities include SpaceX, Synthetic Genomics, and Tesla Motors (TSLA). He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail, Interwoven (IWOV), Kana (KANA), and NeoPhotonics (NPTN). He also led DFJ's investments in other companies that were acquired...
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B-roll footage with selected quotes from Program Architect Dr. Scott Hubbard and Mission Scientist Dr. Marc Buie....
Comments from B612 Strategic Advisor Dick Bingham, Former Chairman of the California Academy of Sciences and President, American Industrial Partners....
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...
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...
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...