Stop YR4

NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth. The firm fixed price launch service task order is being awarded under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity NASA Launch Services II [...]

The likelihood of an asteroid impacting Earth in 2032 has dropped to under 1% following new observations.

According to recent observations, the European Space Agency now says the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting our planet has dropped to just 0.16 percent. That follows an announcement yesterday from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory saying there was a 0.28 percent chance the asteroid would impact Earth. Earlier this [...]