Brian May's Biography: A world-renowned guitarist, songwriter, producer and performer and founding member of Queen—Brian is truly a legend in his own time. He penned 22 of Queen’s top hits, including “We Will Rock You,” today the most-played song at American sporting events and reportedly played...
[caption id="attachment_620" align="alignnone" width="705"] Image: Dan Durda/Sentinel Mission[/caption] Lord Martin Rees, UK Astronomer Royal, says it’s time to ramp up efforts to find the many smaller near-Earth objects that could unleash destruction on our planet and identifies the work of Dr. Ed Lu and the Sentinel...
This month, we’re pleased to highlight father-and-son Founding Circle members James and Justin Jameson. James & Justin Jameson's Bio: James is Chairman and/or major shareholder of companies in aerospace, agriculture, publishing, book distribution and real estate. These companies include Glenair, Inc., LIDCO, Inc., the Luxembourg Cambridge...
Biography of John Troelzsch, Sentinel Program Manager: As the Sentinel Program Manager, John leads the team of experts at Ball Aerospace that will create and operate the Sentinel Mission. His program management, systems engineering and software experience spans all phases of space missions from the development...
SAN FRANCISCO — Humanity can dramatically reduce its frightening vulnerability to cataclysmic asteroid strikes with just a little extra funding and a little extra effort. That's the main message of "Asteroid Day," an educational campaign that launched today (Dec. 3) at a joint news conference held...
[vc_column_text width="1/1" el_position="first last"] Between 2000 and 2013, a network of sensors that monitors Earth around the clock listening for the infrasound signature of nuclear detonations detected 26 explosions on Earth ranging in energy from 1-600 kilotons – all caused not by nuclear explosions, but rather...
It's only a matter of time before a big comet or asteroid is on a collision course with Earth. Will scientists discover it, and be able to do something about it, ahead of time? Ed Lu is interviewed by PBS' News Hour....
The goal of the B612 Foundation is to protect the Earth from Asteroid impacts. We remain strongly committed to achieving this goal. Asteroids like the one that struck in Tunguska in 1908 (45 meters) are large enough to cause enormous damage and loss of life. We have...
Life before the Apocalypse at 51˚ North ‘This is a very different kind of disaster movie. No Bruce Willis here, to save life on Earth from extinction. This is a movie to change perspectives – and now that we realise the high probability of such a...
Keith Cowing, Blogger for NASAWatch.com shares his opinion of NASA's recent decision to terminate the Space Act Agreement with the B612 Foundation. Read the Article: NASA Terminates Space Act Agreement with B612 Foundation for Sentinel Spacecraft...