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New US Asteroid Mining Law Could Violate International Space Treaty
2015-12-01 00:59:10| TechNewsWorld
President Obama last week signed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, which governs ownership of asteroid resources, possibly triggering a new battle in the commercial space race. Section 5103 of the Act gives U.S. companies the right to resources mined from asteroids, although it does not give them rights to the asteroids themselves.
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SSL is JPL Industrial Partner for NASA Asteroid Exploration Mission Opportunity
2015-10-29 11:31:10| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
PALO ALTO, CA - Space Systems/Loral (SSL), a leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that it is the industrial partner for a project in the running to be NASA's next Discovery mission. SSL will work for Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to support Principal Investigator Dr. Lindy...
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NASA Spots The 'Great Pumpkin': Halloween Asteroid A Treat For Radar Astronomers
2015-10-27 05:33:14| rfglobalnet Home Page
NASA scientists are tracking the upcoming Halloween flyby of asteroid 2015 TB145 with several optical observatories and the radar capabilities of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, California.
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Newly discovered asteroid making a close flyby of Earth on Halloween
2015-10-21 13:30:50| Extremetech
NASA has confirmed a large asteroid will make a flyby of Earth on Halloween, but we only spotted it earlier this month.
There is no asteroid coming to kill us all: NASA
2015-08-21 17:00:39| Extremetech
Such is the world we live in these days that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration feels the need to issue an official statement on how we're all not going to die in an Earth-shattering collision with a giant asteroid next month.