Planetary Meteor Defense Shield Proposed
Russia is proposing a unified international monitoring system to prevent Earth from being struck with a catastrophic blast from space.
Following the destructive meteor breakup over southern Russia on February 15, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev assigned a deputy, Dmitry Rogozin, to find ways to prevent far worse disasters.
Rogozin had proposed in 2011 an “international initiative” to prevent such threats by harnessing the “intellectual and technological efforts of industrial nations.”
Anti-missile and aerospace defense technologies in use today are mostly ground-based and designed to detect incoming objects launched from the ground, rather than those coming from space.
A network structured under the umbrella of the United Nations to detect and deflect meteors or asteroids long before they reach the planet is proposed.
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