B612 Foundation Offers New Asteroid Discovery Asset

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—A non-profit dedicated to asteroid defense has made publicly available a nongovernment “precovery service” for the confirmation and refining of asteroid trajectories by rapidly searching through a collection of astronomical data hosted on Google Cloud. Operating on the Asteroid Discovery...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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