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NASA Partnering with Space Force for Asteroid Tracking, Protective Defense

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NASA Partnering with Space Force for Asteroid Tracking, Protective Defense
This animation shows the distance between the Apophis asteroid and Earth at the time of the asteroid's closest approach. The blue dots are the many man-made satellites that orbit our planet, and the pink represents the International Space Station.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA and the Space Force are joining together to use their respective situational awareness capabilities to help the civil space agency better detect, track and protect against objects in space, Administrator Jim Bridenstine said May 5. Speaking at a teleconference hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Bridenstine said that NASA’s planetary defense coordination office is following a 2005 directive from Congress to detect and track 90 percent of near-Earth objects that are over 140 meters, or 460…

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