{"id":19690,"date":"2013-11-21T18:59:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T10:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/planetary-resources-and-nasa-partner-to-crowdsource-asteroid-detection\/"},"modified":"2013-11-21T18:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T10:59:47","slug":"planetary-resources-and-nasa-partner-to-crowdsource-asteroid-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/planetary-resources-and-nasa-partner-to-crowdsource-asteroid-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Resources and NASA partner to crowdsource asteroid detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-117295\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/planetaryresources-e1422474677685-300x68.png\" alt=\"planetaryresources\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/planetaryresources-e1422474677685-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/planetaryresources-e1422474677685.png 388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">Thanks to a Seattle-area company, programmers are soon going to have a shot at using NASA data to find asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources announced today that it has signed an agreement with NASA to sponsor challenges to use algorithms to better detect asteroids and other objects that have orbits that pass close to Earth, otherwise known as Near-Earth Objects (NEOs).<\/p>\n<p>Planetary Resources, which is backed by a number of tech luminaries, including Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, will be working with NASA to provide sky survey data sets to people who are interested in trying to build better ways to find asteroids and other objects in space. They will also run competitions to find the best ways of detecting NEOs. The company will be responsible for developing the challenges, while NASA will be charged with actually running the contests, and figuring out if any of the resulting algorithms can be used to enhance the agency\u2019s detection program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37358\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37358 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/lewicki-e1422474613910-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Lewicki, president and chief engineer of Planetary Resources.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/lewicki-e1422474613910-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/lewicki-e1422474613910-620x348.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/lewicki-e1422474613910.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-37358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Lewicki, president and chief engineer of Planetary Resources.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While the work would be useful for Planetary Resources\u2019 mission of finding and mining asteroids, it also will be beneficial for people who want to make sure that all of those asteroid-based disaster movies don\u2019t come to pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mission is to mine asteroids for precious resources, but we uniquely understand the crowd\u2019s interest to be actively involved in space exploration. And, we are always seeking new and innovative ways to increase our knowledge of&nbsp;NEOs, especially those that may be potentially hazardous,\u201d Planetary Resources\u2019s President and Chief Engineer Chris Lewicki said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The wisdom of crowds is nothing new to Planetary Resources, which we recently named one of Seattle\u2019s 10 most innovative startups. Earlier this year, the company wrapped up a Kickstarter campaign for ARKYD, a crowdfunded space telescope that is supposed to launch in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a Seattle-area company, programmers are soon going to have a shot at using NASA data to find asteroids. Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources announced today that it has signed an agreement with NASA to sponsor challenges to use algorithms to better detect asteroids and other objects that have orbits that pass close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[190,4820],"class_list":["post-19690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nasa","tag-planetary-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}