B612 Foundation
| B612 Foundation
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| legal form | Non-profit foundation |
| founding | 2002 |
| Seat | Menlo Park , California, USA |
| management | Ed Lu ( CEO ) |
| Branch | Aerospace Engineering |
| Website | B612 Foundation |
The B612 Foundation is a non-profit , non-governmental organization and foundation that has set itself the task of researching near-earth objects , protecting the earth from an impact and developing a possible asteroid defense . The foundation was founded in October 2001 at a workshop at the NASA Johnson Space Center by the astrophysicist Piet Hut and the former astronaut Edward Tsang Lu . Other members include a. the former astronaut Russell Louis Schweickart and the astronomer Harold Reitsema . The foundation was named after the fictional asteroid B612 from the short story The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry .
In summer 2012, the organization announced plans for a space mission called SENTINEL (Guardian). The aim of the mission is to put a space telescope with a Falcon launcher into orbit around the sun by 2017 . With the infrared space telescope it should be possible to discover potentially dangerous earth orbit cruisers. The telescope is being built by Ball Aerospace .
See also
Web links
- Website www.b612foundation.org, accessed October 11, 2011.
- B612 and NASA Dialog on how to Deal with Apophis ( Memento from February 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) arc.nasa.gov
- National Space Society and B612 Foundation Hail NASA's Deep Impact Mission . In: spaceref.com . January 12, 2005.
- Mike Wall: To Deflect Killer Asteroids, Humanity Must Work Together . In: space.com . 4th October 2011.
- Sentinel B612 Telescope - Finding Asteroids Before They Find Us - Ed Lu on YouTube (SETI Talks, January 15, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ B612 Overview ( Memento from August 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Near-Earth Object (NEO) Analysis of Transponder Tracking and Gravity Tractor Performance October 2008 jpl.nasa.gov
- ↑ Defense of planets: spaceship is supposed to tow asteroids - science. In: Spiegel Online . November 10, 2005, accessed December 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Foundation History ( Memento from February 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ The Foundation ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 11, 2011
- ^ Nudging Killer Asteroids Off Course npr.org, accessed October 11, 2011
- ↑ Guido Meyer: Cosmic mapping :. In: welt.de . June 30, 2012, accessed December 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Private foundation plans space telescope nature.com
- ↑ B612 Sentinel Mission ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ B612 Foundation Announces First Privately Funded Deep Space Mission . In: ballaerospace.com , accessed July 6, 2012
