On March 20, 2013, Dr. Ed Lu, CEO and Co-founder of the B612 Foundation, presented testimony and answered questions about space threats for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation: Science and Space Subcommittee

Watch the video of Dr. Lu's presentation and Q&A here.

The article "The B612  Foundation Sentinel Telescope" appeared in New Space, the only international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to space innovation.

Editor-in-Chief Scott Hubbard serves on the B612 Foundation Leadership Team as Program Architect.

You can subscribe to New Space magazine here.

We have the second installment on the dynamics of asteroid deflection—an introduction to orbital mechanics—by B612 Chair Emeritus and former NASA astronaut Rusty Schweickart. 

You can find Rusty's original entry, "An Asteroid with Our Address on It," which discusses asteroid deflection.

Ed and Rusty showing the Chelyabinsk meteorite necklace made for B612 Strategic Advisor Carolyn Shoemaker by B612 and given to her on behalf of B612 and the NEO community at the Planetary Defense Conference‘s dinner honoring her contribution to the field.  Ms. Shoemaker, co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, wrote an essay for B612, titled â€œKnowledge is Necessary."

We're excited to announce that entrepreneur, innovator and philanthropist Nancy Conrad has joined our Strategic Advisory board. She will be co-hosting a invitation-only event to support the B612 Foundation in September 2013.

You can read more about Nancy Conrad here.