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The agency has released its Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan to help guide NASA’s efforts over the next decade. NASA has been studying near-Earth objects (NEOs), asteroids,
The agency has released its Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan to help guide NASA’s efforts over the next decade.
NASA has been studying near-Earth objects (NEOs), asteroids, and comets that orbit the Sun for three decades, approaching 30 million miles from our planet’s orbit. While NSOs have the potential to help planetary scientists better understand the birth and formation of our solar system, some travel in orbits that get close enough to Earth to make them potentially dangerous.
To address this issue, NASA established the Planetary Defense Coordination Office in 2016 to lead the agency’s efforts to find, monitor, characterize and, if necessary, mitigate NSOs.
“As we’ve seen with the success of the DART mission, NASA is committed to protecting Earth from potentially dangerous asteroids and comets,” said Administrator Bill Nelson. “Conservation of the planet is in the interest of all humanity, and NASA’s strategy and action plan explains how we will continue to protect our home planet over the next decade.”
Earlier this month, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released an updated National Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan for Near-Earth Object Hazards and Planetary Defense to improve US preparedness over a 10-year period to deal with the NEO collision threat. for all. by organizing and coordinating interagency efforts. NASA’s strategy is consistent with the US National Planetary Defense Strategy. NASA’s strategy focuses on the agency’s efforts to protect the planet to keep it working towards the goals outlined in the national plan.
NASA’s strategy includes all the goals outlined in the national-level plan and adds two additional NASA goals. To achieve its goals, NASA’s strategy follows the architecture of anticipating desired end states, identifying key challenges, and developing actions to solve identified problems.
“An asteroid impact on Earth can cause catastrophic destruction and is also the only natural disaster for which humanity now has enough technology to completely prevent it,” said Lindley Johnson, NASA’s planetary protection officer. “The release of this NASA strategy strengthens NASA’s intent for the next 10 years to ensure that we work both nationally and internationally to protect our planet for the benefit of all.”
Defined in the agency’s strategy, NASA’s key areas of protecting the planet over the next decade include:
The objectives of each strategy are defined for short, medium, long and current timeframes in order to achieve all objectives in the next 10 years.
Preventing an asteroid from colliding with Earth to avoid a devastating natural disaster is a complex problem that requires an interdisciplinary strategic approach. The release of NASA’s Planetary Defense Strategy and Plan of Action is a beacon for the agency, which is working towards ambitious efforts to protect the planet, including the launch of NASA’s NEO (NEO) Surveyor mission. Working with existing ground-based optical telescope capabilities, NEO Surveyor, when launched, will greatly accelerate NASA’s rate of finding the yet undiscovered population of asteroids and comets that could impact our planet.
The release of the agency’s action plan is an important step in ensuring that the latest momentum continues to protect the Earth from potentially dangerous NCDs for generations to come.
Source: Port Altele
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