The Asteroid Tagging Competition

Tagging and tracking an asteroid that might be on a collision course with Earth, a competition.

clipped from www.planetary.org How do you tag and track an asteroid that might be on a collision course with Earth? The first place winners of The Planetary Society's $50,000 Apophis Mission Design Competition presented their innovative solutions at a press conference today in Pasadena, California. clipped from www.universetoday.com clipped from www.planetary.org First place went to the team led by SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia in conjunction with SpaceDev, Inc., Poway, California for their mission, entitled Foresight. Mark G. Schaffer served as Principal Investigator. The Foresight team takes home $25,000 in prize money. clipped from www.wired.com Foresight, the winning design for an asteroid hunter, uses off-the-shelf technology and pared-down mission specs to create a satellite that can be manufactured and launched for less than $140 million. Image: The Planetary Society clipped from origin.mercurynews.com The competition was named after the asteroid Apophis, which will come near Earth in 2029.

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