Sentinel’s Goals
B-roll footage with selected quotes from B612 Chair Emeritus and Co-founder Rusty Schweickart, CEO Dr. Ed Lu, and Program Manager Dr. Howard Reitsema. ...
05 September, 2013
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Dick Bingham Comments
Comments from B612 Strategic Advisor Dick Bingham, Former Chairman of the California Academy of Sciences and President, American Industrial Partners....
05 September, 2013
B612 Sentinel Space Telescope
B-roll simulation of the Sentinel Space Telescope as it orbits around the sun, including conceptual orbits of inner solar system asteroids....
05 September, 2013
Non-Profit’s Private Space Telescope to Hunt Dangerous Asteroids in 2017
With the dangers of rogue asteroids made clear by the surprise explosion of a meteor over Russia in February, a non-profit organization is ramping up its effort to search for potentially hazardous space rocks near Earth. The B612 Foundation was started in 2002 by former NASA...
15 April, 2013
Dr. Ed Lu’s Congressional Testimony
On March 21, 2013, Dr. Ed Lu spoke at a Senate subcommittee (U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation) hearing convened to discuss space-borne threats to human civilization....
21 March, 2013
Can Humans Do Better Than Dinosaurs When it Comes to Incoming Space Objects?
Can humans do better than the dinosaurs? This is one of a string of questions I posed in a Skype chat on Sunday with Russell L. Schweickart, the Apollo 9 astronaut who has become a leading proponent of investing in tools that can spot and deflect...
22 February, 2013
Detecting asteroids, meteors takes on new urgency
Earth may have survived its close encounters with an asteroid and a meteor Friday, but the episodes focused new attention on gaps in astronomers' ability to identify smaller space rocks like these capable of inflicting widespread destruction. Efforts to better identify those threats are underway, including...
20 February, 2013
FAQ on the Chelyabinsk Asteroid Impact
We have received a tremendous amount of inquires on the Chelyabinsk event last Friday. Board member Clark Chapman and CEO Ed Lu put together this FAQ for our community. As the world had two cosmic events in one day, we’re doing our best to bring you...
18 February, 2013
Vindication for Entrepreneurs Watching Sky: Yes it Can Fall
A group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who helped build thriving companies have put millions of dollars into the effort of asteroid defense and Ed Lu’s B612 Foundation is one. "Wouldn’t it be silly if we got wiped out because we weren’t looking?” said Edward Lu, a...
17 February, 2013