NASA closing out Asteroid Redirect Mission, Space News “ARM called for sending a robotic spacecraft to a near Earth asteroid, where it would grab a boulder a few meters across […]
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NASA's Boulder Retrieval Mission Faces Likely Cancellation
Smith, Babin Request Info on ARM Press Release, Report “As the incoming Administration evaluates ARM, it would benefit from clear guidance from both NASA and its advisory bodies. Similarly, it […]
Posted inPolicy
NASA Boulder Retrieval Briefings: Look But Don't Touch
White House, NASA to Discuss Asteroid Redirect Mission’s Importance for Journey to Mars, Planetary Defense “NASA will provide three virtual updates on two planned Asteroid Redirect Missions (ARM) Wednesday, Sept. […]
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ARM Defenders Forecast Nasty Things If It Is Cancelled
Saving NASA’s ARM and the Journey to Mars, Op Ed, Louis Friedman, Space News “The House Appropriations Committee may have just induced such a paralysis by proposing to block funding […]
Posted inExploration
NASA's Boulder Retrieval Mission is Doomed
Asteroid Redirect Mission Delayed One Year, Space Policy Online “President Obama’s Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) will not meet the 2025 date he set for the program in 2010. ARM Program […]
Posted inExploration
NASA Will Be Totally Absent From Global Asteroid Day Event
Introducing Asteroid Day, ESA “The press conference to reveal the events and partners for Asteroid Day 2016 is due to start on Tuesday, 9 February at 1500 CET (1400 UTC). […]
Posted inExploration
NASA's Boulder Retrieval Mission
Keith’s note: NASA quietly admitted today at the Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) Meeting that one of the formally baseline, prime science requirements of the Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM) is […]
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Advising NASA on the Soon-to-be-Redirected Asteroid Redirect Mission
Invitation to Membership on the Formulation Assessment and Support Team for the Asteroid Redirect Mission “The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to release a letter of invitation for […]
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NASA Advisory Council Wants to Cancel Asteroid Redirect Mission and Send it to Phobos Instead
NAC Adopts Finding To Redirect the Asteroid Redirect Mission — to Mars, SpacePolicyOnline “The NASA Advisory Council (NAC) today unanimously adopted a finding that it thinks NASA should change the […]
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NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission Gets Wimpier
NASA Chooses Asteroid Mission Plan “NASA Wednesday announced more details in its plan for its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which in the mid-2020s will test a number of new capabilities […]