GomSpace’s subsidiary in Luxembourg and the
European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract of EUR 400.000 for the Phase
A design of the Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer (M-ARGO)
mission.

Under the contract GomSpace will be in charge of
preliminary design of the mission, spacecraft and implementation planning.

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You’ve never seen a night sky
sight quite like this. 

It’s been one day since SpaceX launched its first 60 Starlink internet satellites into
orbit, and skywatchers around the World have already spotted them soaring
across the night sky.

SpaceX launched the satellites
into an initial orbit 273 miles (440 kilometers) above Earth.

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Asteroids may have provided up to half of the
Earth’s ocean water, new research shows.

Arizona State University recently found water in
fragments of an asteroid known as Itokawa. This discovery suggests impacts from
other asteroids during the early parts of Earth’s history may have sourced much
of the water for the planet’s oceans.

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After devastating the French Riviera in 2013,
destroying Dhaka in 2015 and saving Tokyo in 2017, an international asteroid
impact simulation ended Friday with its latest disaster — New York in ruins.

Despite a simulated eight years of preparation,
scientists and engineers tried but failed to deflect the killer asteroid.

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On April 13, 2029, a speck of light will streak
across the sky, getting brighter and faster. At one point it will travel more
than the width of the full Moon within a minute and it will get as bright as
the stars in the Little Dipper. But it won’t be a satellite or an airplane –

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Small enough to be an aircraft carry-on, the
Juventas spacecraft nevertheless has big mission goals. Once in orbit around
its target body, Juventas will unfurl an antenna larger than itself, to perform
the very first subsurface radar survey of an asteroid.

ESA’s proposed Hera mission for planetary defence
will explore the twin Didymos asteroids,

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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has called for
more global participation in efforts to deflect asteroids that could collide
with Earth.

Bridenstine spoke to the 2019 Planetary Defense
Conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday morning in an event that was streamed
live online. The conference was organized by the International Association for
the Advancement of Space Safety.

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Here’s a hypothetical: a telescope detects an
asteroid between 100 and 300 meters in diameter racing through our solar system
at 14 kilometers per second, 57 million kilometers from Earth.

Astronomers estimate a one percent risk the space
rock will collide with our planet on April 27, 2027.

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The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has sent back images of the crater made when it detonated an explosive charge on the asteroid it is investigating.

On 5 April, the Japanese probe released a 14kg device packed with
plastic explosive on to the asteroid Ryugu.

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NASA’s
Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission
released its fifth year of survey data on April 11, 2019. The five years of
NEOWISE data have significantly advanced scientists’ knowledge of asteroids and
comets in the solar system, as well as the stars and galaxies beyond.

“NEOWISE
recently surpassed 95 billion recorded measurements of asteroids,

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