The B612 Foundation is a group of scientists, engineers, and astronauts who want to literally save the world… from asteroid impacts.. They know the first step in doing so is to build a telescope ...

Note: B612 assumed that 10-12 years would be required (end to end) to plan and execute the first asteroid deflection mission. NASA’s 7 year estimate allows a potential pre-deflection transponder ...

A graphic representation by the B612 Foundation showing asteroid impacts A visualisation showing where sizeable asteroids have hit the Earth in recent years has been released by the B612 ...

B612_070_RAD.jpg SHOWN: Rusty Schweickart, the Chairman of the B612 Foundation, ... "While an asteroid or similar object impacting Earth could have devastating effects, ...

The B612 Foundation has released a video depicting the distribution of 26 asteroid impacts known to have struck the Earth since the year 2000. Many of the impacts detected exploded with a force ...

The B612 Foundation get its name from “The Little Prince,” the 1943 French novella whose main character hailed from a small asteroid designated on Earth as B612. Co-founded in 2002 by former ...

See images of the B612 Foundation's private deep-space telescope for hunting dangerous asteroids. The Sentinel Space Project is the world's first deep-space telescope mission.

B612 marks something totally novel for the private space industry, in that it isn’t a commercial venture. It’s something more like space philanthropy. In 2001, a privately-funded deep space ...

B612 Foundation receives ... MOU is to provide the framework to achieve enhanced support for educating policymakers and the general public on the effects of asteroid impacts and the ...

With the video, the B612 Foundation hopes to raise awareness about why Earthlings need asteroid-hunting systems. "While most large asteroids with the potential to destroy an entire country or ...

B612 Foundation CEO Ed Lu will present new visualization of data from a nuclear weapons warning network that goes on to prove that we get struck by asteroids many more times than is reported on a ...