2012年6月28日 · The world's first private space telescope will be deep-space sentinel to silently hunt for dangerous asteroids that may threaten the Earth, the B612 Foundation officials say.

2012年6月28日 · Sentinel uses a 20-inch infrared telescope to scan for moving objects that could be asteroids in near-Earth orbits. Sentinel would be the world’s first privately funded deep space...

biting infrared space telescope called Sentinel to find and track aster-oids that could impact Earth. Sentinel will be launched in 2018, and during the first 6.5 years of operation, it will discover and track the orbits of more than 90 percent of the population of near-Earth objects (NEOs) larger than 140m, and a large fraction of those bigger ...

2012年6月28日 · Sentinel will search in infrared wavelengths, in which asteroids stand out as warm, moving blobs against a relatively cold and static background. The telescope's mirror will be 20 inches...

2015年4月27日 · Sentinel, in its baseline orbit, can find 81 percent of potential NEO impactors at least 40 meters across after 10 years of joint operations with LSST, and 46 percent of such objects at least...

2015年4月29日 · Sentinel is the first space telescope dedicated to asteroid hunting. During six and a half years of operation, it will be able to spot more than 500,000 objects orbiting in the vicinity of Earth, dozens of times more than have been found to date.

Graphic depicting the Sentinel space telescope in place on the other side of the sun to search for possible killer asteroids. Image courtesy of B612 Foundation. Series: The Asteroid Threat.

2015年6月23日 · One partner in the effort, the Sentinel mission, has an especially urgent need to drum up public support: it is struggling to raise the US$450 million it needs to launch a space telescope...

The Sentinel Space Telescope Project – An innovative approach to managing an interplanetary mission • Small experienced team focused on a single project – Rapid decision making as smart customer • Stable high level requirements – find 90% of asteroids larger than 140 meters in 6.5 years • Experienced contractor (Ball Aerospace)

2012年6月30日 · California-based non-profit B612 Foundation has announced its intention to place an asteroid-hunting infrared telescope into orbit around the Sun. Named Sentinel, the ambitious endeavor is to...