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Asteroids

GomSpace joins ESA’s RAMSES mission to study near-Earth asteroid using advanced cubesat technology

April 30, 2025

GomSpace is participating in the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (RAMSES), an innovative initiative led by the European Space Agency (ESA). The contract value is EUR 900,000. This mission […]

Filed Under: Apophis Asteroid, Asteroids, Business Moves, Collaboration, Contracts, Cubesats, Deep Space, Deep Space Exploration, EMXYS (Spain), Europe, European Space Agency (ESA), Flyby, GomSpace, Initiative, Planetary Defense, Ramses Mission (ESA), smallsats, Space Exploration, Spain, System Engineering Support

NASA Shares Observations of Recently-Identified Near Earth Asteroid

January 29, 2025

ASA analysis of a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, indicates it has a more than 1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032 – which also means there is […]

Filed Under: Asteroids, NASA, NASA / JPL

SpaceX sends off ESA’s Hera planetary defense mission to study NASA’s astroid redirection

October 7, 2024

Florida’s weather held steady on Monday, October 7, enabling SpaceX to launch the ESA Hera mission to interplanetary transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space […]

Filed Under: Asteroids, Cape Canaveral SFS, Cubesats, DART Mission (NASA), Didymos, European Space Agency (ESA), Hera Asteroid Mission, HERA Systems, smallsats, Space Launch Complex 40, Space Safety, SpaceX, Weather, Weather Forecasting Tagged With: Featured

SpaceX to launch ESA’s Hera to study Didymos asteroid on Monday, weather permitting

October 6, 2024

On Monday, October 7th, at 7:52 AM – 8:27 AM PDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX plans to launch Hera, for the European Space Agency, on […]

Filed Under: Asteroids, Cape Canaveral SFS, Cubesats, DART Mission (NASA), Didymos, European Space Agency (ESA), Hera Asteroid Mission, HERA Systems, smallsats, Space Launch Complex 40, Space Safety, SpaceX, Weather, Weather Forecasting

Reps from NASA, ESA, JAXA, ASI, KASA meet during COSPAR 2024 to coordinate and reinforce cooperation for asteroid Apophis mission

September 4, 2024

At the initiative of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), representatives from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Agenzia Spaziale […]

Filed Under: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), Apophis Asteroid, Asteroid Missions, Asteroids, Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), Coordination, ESA, JAXA, Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA), NASA, News

NASA + partners conduct the 5th asteroid impact exercise release summary

June 26, 2024

NASA has released a summary Thursday of the fifth biennial Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise. NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, in partnership with FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and with the assistance […]

Filed Under: Analysis / Reports, Asteroids, CNES, Federal Emergency Management Administraiton (FEMA), Johns Hopkins APL, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NASA, NASA / JPL, NEO Surveyor (NASA JPL), Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise

Rocket Lab’s New Zealand success deploys satellites to separate orbits 500km apart for KAIST and NASA

April 23, 2024

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) , a global leader in launch services and space systems, today deployed two satellites to two different orbits approximately 500km apart on its 47th […]

Filed Under: , an Earth Observation (EO) satellite for the Satellite Technology Research Center (SaTReC), AI, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Asteroids, Disaster Management, Earth Observation (EO), Electron, In-Space Propulsion, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), NASA, NeonSat-1 (KAIST), Polar Region, Propulsion, Rocket Lab, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Satellite Data, Solar Sail, South Korea, Space Weather, Spacecraft, Sun Tagged With: Featured

ESA: Radar journey to centre of Hera’s asteroid with Juventas CubeSat

March 28, 2024

A small, shoebox-sized spacecraft delivered to ESA’s Hera mission this week promises to make a giant leap forward in planetary science. Once deployed from the Hera spacecraft at the Didymos […]

Filed Under: Asteroid Missions, Asteroids, Didymos, EMXYS (Spain), ESTEC Test Center, European Space Agency (ESA), Hera Asteroid Mission, Hera Milani Smallsat, HERA Systems, HERA-Juventas spacecraft, Juventas Operations, Milani Hyperspectral Mission, SmallSat, SmallSat Builds, SmallSat Design, Smallsat Development, Smallsat Manufacturing, Smallsat Payloads, smallsats

SwRI scientists identify water molecules on asteroids for the first time

February 14, 2024

Using data from the retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) — a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency at DLR — Southwest Research Institute scientists have […]

Filed Under: Asteroids, German Space Agency (DLR), James Webb Space Telescope, Moon, NASA, Southwest Research Institute (SWRI), Sun

Tyvak International completes the Test Readiness Review of the Milani smallsat

December 17, 2023

Tyvak International — together with its project partners — have announced the successful achievement of the Test Readiness Review of the Milani spacecraft. A critical component of the Hera planetary […]

Filed Under: Asteroid Missions, Asteroids, Deep Space, European Space Agency (ESA), Hera Asteroid Mission, LEO, Milani (Tyvak Inte'l), Nanosatellite, Planetary Defense, SmallSat, Test Readienss Review, Tyvak International

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