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Bruce Betts

Bruce Betts

Chief Scientist at The Planetary Society

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Planetary Society's Optical SETI Telescope Offers Online View of Night sky

The Planetary Society’s Optical SETI Telescope was built solely to search for possible light signals from alien civilizations. Located at Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, it is the first dedicated Optical SETI telescope in the world. Its 72-inch primary mirror also makes it larger than any optical telescope in the U.S. east of the Mississippi river.
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Shoemaker NEO Grant Winners Advance Their Work

We check in our last round of grant winners, who are helping to defend Earth from dangerous asteroids.
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LightSail 2 completes second year in space

Two years after launch, The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft is still solar sailing and paving the way for future missions.
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Announcing the 2021 Shoemaker NEO Grant Winners

More funds than ever before support the work of asteroid hunters from around the world.
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Request for Proposals for the 2022 Science and Technology Empowered...

We are excited to announce a new Request for Proposals (RFP) for our Science and Technology Empowered by the Public (STEP) Grants.
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Updates from our Shoemaker NEO Grant winners

Brief updates on what the latest Shoemaker NEO grant winners have been working on.
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LightSail 2 getting lower as it completes third year in space

An update on The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 mission, which launched in 2015.
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LightSail 2 is about to burn up

After 3.5 years, 18,000 orbits of the Earth, and 8 million kilometers (5 million miles) traveled, The Planetary Society’s successful LightSail 2 solar sail spacecraft will burn up as it reenters the Earth’s atmosphere in the next few days.
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Announcing the 2023 Shoemaker NEO grant winners

Meet the latest round of winners in The Planetary Society’s Shoemaker Near-Earth Object (NEO) grant program, which funds astronomers around the world in their efforts to find, track, and characterize near-Earth asteroids.
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Updates from our asteroid-hunting Shoemaker NEO Grant winners

An overview of updates from some of our previous Shoemaker NEO Grant winners.
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Supporting asteroid defense: The 2025 Shoemaker NEO Grant winners

Meet the latest winners of The Planetary Society's Shoemaker NEO Grant program.