Joint Study With JPL
Please note: This blog post was issued/posted prior to B612 deciding to build, launch and operate a telescope in June 2012. JPL in conjunction with B612 Foundation on the feasibility of a Gravity...
View ArticleNational Research Council Report on NEO hazards
Please note: This blog post was issued/posted prior to B612 deciding to build, launch and operate a telescope in June 2012. The NRC weighs in on the importance of developing asteroid search and...
View ArticleNASA Advisory Council Report on Planetary Defense
Please note: This blog post was issued/posted prior to B612 deciding to build, launch and operate a telescope in June 2012. Report of the NASA Advisory Council ad hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense...
View ArticleJPL Evaluation of Gravity Tractor
Please note: This blog post was issued/posted prior to B612 deciding to build, launch and operate a telescope in June 2012. In early 2008 B612 Foundation contracted Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to...
View ArticleCongressional Hearing on NASA’s NEO Report
Please note: This blog post was issued/posted prior to B612 deciding to build, launch and operate a telescope in June 2012. The long anticipated Congressional hearing on NASA’s NEO Report to Congress...
View ArticleNASA’s NEO Report to Congress
Please note: This blog post was issued/posted prior to B612 deciding to build, launch and operate a telescope in June 2012. NASA’s NEO report to Congress (see related post) has stirred considerable...
View ArticleIndependent Analysis of Alternatives to Divert NEO
Please note: This blog post was issued/posted prior to B612 deciding to build, launch and operate a telescope in June 2012. In response to the Congressional directive to provide it an initial report...
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The History of B612 Foundation
B612 Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to planetary defense from asteroids. Founded in 2002, in our first decade, we worked to find technical solutions for asteroid deflection,...
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A Gravitational Tractor for Towing Asteroids
What if, say, a 20-ton spacecraft spent a year just hovering above the surface of an asteroid? “When we plugged the numbers in, we were like, hey, it actually works,” recalls Lu. “The force of gravity...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Letter to the President
Back in 2003, Astrophysicist Piet Hut from the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton and a founding member of the Kira Institute and B612 Foundation, wanted to answer this question posed by...
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