{"id":8148,"date":"2014-06-20T11:40:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8148"},"modified":"2014-06-20T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T15:40:23","slug":"video-nasa-asteroid-initiative-status-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8148","title":{"rendered":"Video: NASA asteroid initiative status report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA posted\u00a0two press releases yesterday about the developments in the \u00a0agency&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/asteroids\/initiative\/index.html#.U6RTu_ldU4I\" target=\"_d\">Asteroid Initiative<\/a>. This includes a program to look\u00a0for and track near earth asteroids . The current long term goal is to send\u00a0an unmanned system to rendezvous with, capture, and move a small asteroid into an orbit in the Earth-Moon system where it would be visited by NASA astronauts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press\/2014\/june\/nasa-announces-latest-progress-upcoming-milestones-in-hunt-for-asteroids\/index.html#.U6RTVvldU4I\" target=\"_d\">NASA Announces Latest Progress, Upcoming Milestones in Hunt for Asteroids &#8211;\u00a0NASA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/nasa-selects-studies-for-the-asteroid-redirect-mission\/#.U6RTd_ldU4I\" target=\"_d\">NASA Selects Studies for the Asteroid Redirect Mission &#8211; NASA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a video of discussion on June 19th by several NASA managers and scientists about the asteroid program :<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/moCatlSZxGM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA posted\u00a0two press releases yesterday about the developments in the \u00a0agency&#8217;s\u00a0Asteroid Initiative. This includes a program to look\u00a0for and track near earth asteroids . The current long term goal is to send\u00a0an unmanned system to rendezvous with, capture, and move a small asteroid into an orbit in the Earth-Moon system where it would be visited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: NASA asteroid initiative status report<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-space-policy","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-27q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4511,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4511","url_meta":{"origin":8148,"position":0},"title":"NASA reaches out to Makers for help with Asteroid Grand Challenge","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA;s Chief Technologist Mason Peck to attend Maker Faire to ask help of Makers \"for ideas on how to find, track and deflect asteroids\" as part of the agency's Asteroid Initiative and Grand Challenge: NASA Highlights Asteroid Grand Challenge at World Maker Faire NASA is reaching out to a new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Asteroids &amp; Comets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Asteroids &amp; Comets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=75"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/f5rsJwsyni4\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3212,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3212","url_meta":{"origin":8148,"position":1},"title":"NASA&#8217;s KaBOOM radar could greatly improve detection and characterization of asteroids","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The \"Ka-BOOM\" NASA project is developing a way to use an array of small high-frequency Ka-band radar dishes to map \"nearby asteroids, orbital space debris, water on the Moon and even rover-trapping sand pits on Mars\" : NASA Developing Prototype Asteroid-mapping Radar at KSC - SpaceNews.com. 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