Sentinel Mission

We are at the beginning of a new era in exploration where private organizations can now carry out grand and audacious space missions previously only possible by governments. The Sentinel Mission (a project of the B612 Foundation) will build, launch, and operate the first privately funded deep space mission – a space telescope to be placed in orbit around the Sun. The orbits of the inner solar system where Earth lies are populated with a half million asteroids larger than the one that struck Tunguska in 1908, and the vast majority are uncharted. These asteroids are a scientific and economic opportunity in that they contain the original building blocks of the Solar System, are targets for future human exploration, and may contain valuable raw materials. These asteroids are also a threat in that they can pose great risk to humanity here on Earth. The Sentinel Mission will create the first comprehensive, dynamic map of our inner solar system that will show the current and future locations and trajectories of