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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. In anticipation of the 25-year-anniversary of “Deep Impact,” Dr. Clark R. Chapman and his wife Y Chapman decided to rewatch the classic sci-fi disaster flick.

Between 2000 and 2013, these instruments detected 26 explosions on the planet ranging in energy from 1 to 600 kilotons, all caused by asteroid impacts, B612 Foundation officials said.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...