Saturday, 29 June 2024 at 10:00 CEST
Asteroid Day Festival – 2024
Summary
You live in another country and couldn’t attend the Asteroid Day Festival? Tune in here and listen to captivating discussions on asteroids, space missions, finance in space, data sonification and more! Learn from industry-leading experts and visionaries about the latest advancements and insights.
Friday, 28 June 2024 at 18:00 CEST
Asteroid Day Space Lecture – 2024
Summary
Watch the Asteroid Day Space Lecture hosted by the Asteroid Foundation, headquarters for Asteroid Day, in Luxembourg. This event offers a unique opportunity for students, academia, the space community, and the general public to learn about the latest updates in asteroid and space research. Tune in for an informative and engaging lecture presented by astronauts and experts in the field.
Saturday, 1 July 2023 at 10:00 CEST
Asteroid Day Festival – Watch Again!
Summary
You live in another country and couldn’t attend the Asteroid Day Festival? Tune in here and listen to captivating discussions on asteroids, space missions, finance in space, data sonification and more! Learn from industry-leading experts and visionaries about the latest advancements and insights.
Friday, 30 June 2023 at 16:00 CEST
Asteroid Day Space Lecture – Watch Again!
Summary
Watch the Asteroid Day Space Lecture hosted by the Asteroid Foundation, headquarters for Asteroid Day, in Luxembourg. This event offers a unique opportunity for students, academia, the space community, and the general public to learn about the latest updates in asteroid and space research. Tune in for an informative and engaging lecture presented by astronauts and experts in the field.
Watch Asteroid Day LIVE 2022!
Asteroid Day LIVE is the only broadcast dedicated to educating the public about asteroids. This past June, we returned to Luxembourg’s BCE Studio to shoot the four-hour production with special guests and astronauts Ron Garan, Ed Lu, Michel Tognini, Dorin Prunariu and Christer Fuglesang. Hosted by Stuart Clark, Sabinije von Gaffke, Patrick Michel and others, the broadcast featured scientists and team members from today’s most significant asteroid missions including DART, Hera, OSIRIS-REx, Psyche, Lucy, Hayabusa2 and more.
Click here to see the full program and participants.
ASTEROID DAY LIVE 2021
This year, Asteroid Day LIVE celebrates the 25th launch anniversary of NASA’s NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft, and the 2021 launch of three new asteroid missions, NASA’s Lucy, NEA Scout and DART – the world’s first mission to test an asteroid deflection technique – and much more.
HIGHLIGHTED ASTEROID DAY EVENTS
Watch video from Asteroid Day events held around the world.
SPACECONNECTSUS
Asteroid Foundation’s year-round SpaceConnectsUs program brings astronauts and experts to schools and universities around the globe where they give presentations on all things space.
SCIENTISTS ROCK
Scientists Rock is a seven-part video series created by Asteroid Day co-founder Grig Richters highlighting the origins of Asteroid Day and the importance of asteroid detection, characterization, deflection, and having an emergency response plan.
WHAT IS ASTEROID DAY?
Learn more about who we are and why Asteroid Day is an important cause.
ASTEROID DAY LIVE 2020
Asteroid Day LIVE from Luxembourg 2020 featured a fully digital celebration of asteroid science and exploration. Panel discussions and one-on-one interviews with astronauts and world experts.
ASTEROID DAY LIVE 2019
Asteroid Day LIVE 2019 themes ranged from the role of asteroids in the formation of our solar system to discussions of new space industries accelerating the technologies to advance space-based activities.
ASTEROID DAY LIVE 2018
Asteroid Day LIVE 2018 addresses science as well as government and private-sector initiatives to study asteroids, and particularly advanced efforts to develop greater detection, tracking and deflection techniques.
ASTEROID DAY LIVE 2017
Our very first 24-hour live broadcast from BCE Luxembourg. Asteroid Day LIVE 2017 brings an all-star lineup of speakers including Brain Cox, Nicole Stott, Jean-Francois Clervoy and more.
