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) ...
Proposed use of a Gravity Tractor for controllably towing asteroids by Ed Lu and Stan Love. Nature magazine, Vol. 438, November 10, 2005...
Testimony to Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space on the subject of Planetary Defense by B612 leaders....