Sentences with phrase «planetary defense»

Catch and divert a small asteroid - > practice mission for planetary defense.

Rumpf said his findings, which he plans to present at the 2017 International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference in Tokyo, Japan, could help hazard mitigation groups better prepare for asteroid threats because it details which impact effects are most dominant, which are less severe and where resources should be allocated.

After taking down one of Hydra's strongholds and confiscating Loki's scepter, Tony Stark decides to interface the artificial intelligence inside it to an abandoned secret planetary defense system known as Ultron.

This «test» of what has become a global asteroid - impact early - warning system is a volunteer project, conceived and organized by NASA - funded asteroid observers and supported by the NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO).

I'm glad someone finally talked some sense into Bolden, but the NASA Administrator should never have been justifying ARM on the grounds of planetary defense in the first place.

«While no known NEO currently poses a risk of impact with Earth over the next 100 years,» says NASA Planetary Defense Officer Lindley Johnson, «we've found mostly the larger asteroids, and we have a lot more of the smaller but still potentially hazardous ones to find.»

NASA Planetary Defense Officer Lindley Johnson said, «We are fortunate that our sky survey telescope was looking in the right place at the right time to capture this historic moment.

NASA's new Planetary Defense Coordination Office has a plan to give you peace of mind.

NASA's best hope for planetary defense resides with a proposed asteroid - seeking space telescope.

NASA is now pursuing new partnerships and collaborations in an Asteroid Grand Challenge to accelerate NASA's existing planetary defense work, which will help find all asteroid threats to human population and know what to do about them.

That downplaying of the role of the ARM for science or planetary defense aligns with the findings from last month's meeting of NASA's Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) in Washington.

March 15, 2018 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are part of a national planetary defense team that designed a conceptual spacecraft to deflect Earth - bound asteroids and evaluated whether it would be able to nudge a massive asteroid — which has a remote chance to hitting Earth in 2135 — off...

«Following the 1994 Shoemaker - Levy 9 comet impacts with Jupiter, Edward Teller proposed to a collective of U.S. and Russian ex-Cold War weapons designers in a 1995 planetary defense workshop meeting at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), that they collaborate to design a 1 gigaton nuclear explosive device, which would be equivalent to the kinetic energy of a 1 km diameter asteroid.

Planetary Radio Live was the only public event at the just - completed Planetary Defense Conference in Italy.

In this game you control fleets of space fighters, control planetary defense and economies while conquering other enemy planets.

The Ad - Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense, set up to suggest ways for the agency to protect Earth against a deadly impact, is expected to release its report next month.

The NEOWISE project is funded by the Near - Earth Object Observation Program, now part of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office.

The grand challenge is a search for the best ideas for finding asteroids that pose a potential threat to human populations, and to accelerate the work NASA already is doing for planetary defense.

The European Space Agency is contemplating a mission to test ways to push such an object off a threatening trajectory, the first serious attempt at developing a planetary defense.

The NEO Observations Program is a primary element of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office, which is responsible for finding, tracking and characterizing potentially hazardous NEOs, issuing warnings about possible impacts, and coordinating U.S. government planning for response to an actual impact threat.

The success of the initial X-ray studies has also excited interest from the planetary defense scientific community looking to explore the use of X-ray experiments to guide our understanding of meteorite breakup.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the NEOWISE mission for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office within the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

In the last couple of months, NASA has appeared to put a greater emphasis on the role its overall asteroid initiative, including the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), could play in planetary defense.

Pan-STARRS conducts a near - Earth object (NEO) survey funded by NASA's NEO Observations Program, a key element of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office.

However, in a meeting last week, NASA administrator Charles Bolden appears to play down the role the mission could play in planetary defense or science.

Referring to the ARM as the ARRM (Asteroid Redirect and Return Mission), the SBAG found it wanting both in science and planetary defense.

Today, an organization called B612 hopes to avoid future follies by building up a planetary defense system to protect Earth from asteroid collisions.

From Italy, Bruce Betts gives background and information at the start of the Planetary Defense Conference, which addresses the asteroid threat.

From groundbreaking technology like LightSail ®, to policy that shapes historic missions, the global group explores space together through four core enterprises: Human Space Exploration, Robotic Exploration, Planetary Defense and the Search for Life.

The last installment of our Planetary Defense Conference coverage makes a deep impact as hundreds of attendees participate in an asteroid mitigation exercise.

Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan joined Bill Nye and four passionate planetary explorers on stage at the Planetary Defense Conference in Flagstaff, Arizona.

NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is charged with monitoring the paths of asteroids and other objects with orbits that could send them on a crash course with Earth, and planning for response to an actual impact threat.

The space agency, along with astronomers from the International Asteroid Warning Network, are currently planning to use TC4 as an exercise to test out the «recovery, characterization and reporting» of a potentially hazardous object approaching Earth — it allows them to try out the planetary defense systems they have been developing over the last few years.

This makes it one of the largest close approach asteroids to brush past Earth this year, and presents NASA with a valuable opportunity: To test out its planetary defense systems.

NASA is preparing to test out its planetary defense systems on an asteroid that will come extremely close to Earth next week.

If the planetary defense systems came on - line, their chance of taking the planet quickly dramatically decreased.

The rest of your command is to concentrate on planetary defense and communications installations,» he said softly into his com - link, confident only the ship's commander, the putative head of this so - called fleet, could hear him.

The fortifications of the planetary defense line turned out to be not effective against the powerful energy weapon used by the aliens.

Command the Solar Warden space fleet from the real - time strategy overlay; the Planetary Defense Interface (PDI) into battle or choose to assume immediate control of any of your fleet directly with the «Telepresence» technology and combat the Silicoid menace up close!

But gluing together a planetary defense strategy is not easy and includes a number of components: From finding potentially hazardous objects, predicting their future locations, and providing warning about future impacts with the Earth.