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, Near Earth Objects, NSS Press Releases
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, Near Earth Objects
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 resources....
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:
by National Space Society | Apr 19, 2015 | Asteroids, Space Policy, The Space Movement
NSS Executive Vice President Dale Skran writes: In the current April 20-26 print issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, one of the top three business magazines in the country (along with Fortune and Forbes), the lead editorial is about when to get into the asteroid market....
by National Space Society | Dec 3, 2014 | Asteroids, NSS Press Releases
The National Space Society (NSS) congratulates the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on the successful launch of Hayabusa 2 December 2, 2014, at 11:22 PM EST on the Japanese H-IIA booster. Hayabusa 2 is planned to arrive at asteroid 1999 JU3 in July 2018,...
by National Space Society | Jul 18, 2014 | Asteroids, Commercial Spaceflight, Near Earth Objects, Space Policy
U.S. Representatives Bill Posey (R-FL) and Derek Kilmer (D-WA) have introduced bipartisan legislation to expand opportunities and protections for private space companies looking to explore space. The American Space Technology for Exploring Resource Opportunities in...
