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Blue Origin Launches Mission to Defend Earth from Asteroids

3/19/2026

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Blue Origin, a space company, leads NEO Hunter with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to defend Earth from hazardous asteroids.
The mission deploys cubesats to study asteroid properties.
It uses deflection methods: an ion beam to alter trajectories and a kinetic impact for threats, mirroring NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART).
The mission will release Slamcam to document impacts.

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Story summary

Blue Origin, a space company, leads NEO Hunter with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to defend Earth from hazardous asteroids.
The mission deploys cubesats to study asteroid properties.
It uses deflection methods: an ion beam to alter trajectories and a kinetic impact for threats, mirroring NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART).
The mission will release Slamcam to document impacts.