by National Space Society | Sep 27, 2022 | Asteroids, NASA, NSS Press Releases
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test Has Successfully Met Its Target Image: Photo of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos seconds before the DART spacecraft crashed into it. Courtesy NASA. The National Space Society lauds NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Mission on...
by National Space Society | Jun 14, 2022 | Asteroids, Planetary Defense, Space Policy
The NSS Campaign to Save NEOSM (Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission) By Jonathan Dagle, NSS Planetary Defense Program Manager Asteroids have been striking the Earth for millions of years, and it is only a matter of “when” the next impact will occur, not “if.” Since the...
by National Space Society | Jan 7, 2022 | Asteroids, Moon, Space Development, Space Exploration, Space Science
© by Dale Skran, NSS Chief Operating Officer Image: NASA Lucy mission will fly by eight asteroids (courtesy NASA) You can’t develop or settle that which is not yet explored, so there is a synergistic relationship between planetary probes, especially missions to the...
by National Space Society | Dec 31, 2018 | Asteroids, NASA, Space Exploration
By Trevor J. Mills OSIRIS-REx has just entered orbit around asteroid Bennu on New Year’s Eve, 2018. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is an asteroid sample return mission, similar to...
by National Space Society | Aug 30, 2018 | Asteroids, JAXA, Space Development, Space Exploration
Illustration by Akihiro Ikeshita (C) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) By Trevor Mills What is Hayabusa2? Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa2 (“Peregrine Falcon” in Japanese) is a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) spacecraft which is scheduled to return a...
by National Space Society | Sep 9, 2016 | Asteroids, NASA, NSS Press Releases, Planetary Defense
With the successful launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 411 on September 8 at 7:05 PM EST, 2016 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, NASA’s mission to travel to a near Earth asteroid and return a sample got underway....
by National Space Society | Aug 9, 2016 | Asteroids, Commercial Spaceflight
Deep Space Industries announced today its plans to fly the world’s first commercial interplanetary mining mission. Prospector-1™ will fly to and rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid, and investigate the object to determine its value as a source of space...
by National Space Society | Jan 13, 2016 | Asteroids, Commercial Spaceflight, Space Business, Space Solar Power, Space Tourism, Space Transportation
Excellent 7-minute video from United Launch Alliance:
