The bottom line was that even a decade after the passage of the act (mid-2010s), NASA was not making any progress at accomplishing that goal. There are a lot of reasons for that, but I won't go into them here.
The problem was that NEOCam just never got funding. NEOCam has now been renamed as the NEO Surveyor, but is essentially the same project. The leading proposal for that telescope was the NEOCam spacecraft, first proposed in the 2000s. The only way to accomplish the goal is to build an in-space infrared telescope specifically designed for the purpose. Even only a few years after the act was signed, it was clear that NASA was not going to accomplish that goal, and by 2020 it was clear that existing asteroid detection systems were never going accomplish that goal even by 2035. Brown Act.) By 2020-the deadline in the act-NASA had detected about 30% of those asteroids. (Note: it's technically part of a different piece of legislation and not a stand-alone act, but it is generally referred to as the George E. Brown Act, which directed NASA to find 90% of potentially hazardous asteroids 140 meters in diameter or greater by 2020. The most relevant issue is the 2005 George E. Planetary and Space Science, 157, pp.104-115. AIDA DART asteroid deflection test: Planetary defense and science objectives. Advances in Space Research, 62(, pp.2261-2272.Ĭheng, A.F., Rivkin, A.S., Michel, P., Atchison, J., Barnouin, O., Benner, L., Chabot, N.L., Ernst, C., Fahnestock, E.G., Kueppers, M.
European component of the AIDA mission to a binary asteroid: Characterization and interpretation of the impact of the DART mission. Michel, P., Kueppers, M., Sierks, H., Carnelli, I., Cheng, A.F., Mellab, K., Granvik, M., Kestilä, A., Kohout, T., Muinonen, K. In Proceedings of the 4th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Frascati, Italy. Asteroid impact and deflection assessment mission: Double asteroid redirection test (dart). 23-28).Ĭheng, A., Stickle, A., Atchison, J., Barnouin, O., Rivkin, A., Michel, P., Ulamec, S. In European Planetary Science Congress (Vol. In European Planetary Science Congress (Vol.Ĭheng, A.F., Michel, P., Reed, C., Galvez, A., Carnelli, I. AIDA: The asteroid impact and deflection assessment mission. Galvez, A., Carnelli, I., Michel, P., Cheng, A.F., Reed, C., Ulamec, S., Biele, J., Zbrll, P. It's not often that you find a member of Congress doing such thorough homework:
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