B612 Foundation Announces $2.3 Million in Leadership Gifts
SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The B612 Foundation announced today a new $1 million matching challenge grant from Tito's Handmade Vodka and separate $1.3 million in gifts to advance their efforts to build the Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) cloud-based astrodynamics platform. B612 Foundation, and its core program, the Asteroid Institute, is committed to expanding humanity's knowledge of our solar system, including the discovery of asteroids and their orbits.
- B612 Foundation, and its core program, the Asteroid Institute, is committed to expanding humanity's knowledge of our solar system, including the discovery of asteroids and their orbits.
- "The Foundation has a three-year funding goal to raise a further $4 million to advance the Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform.
- In order to unlock Tito's Handmade Vodka matching challenge grant, B612 must raise another $1 million from donors.
- A program of B612 Foundation, the Asteroid Institute leverages advances in computer science, instrumentation, and astronomy to find and track asteroids.