This is a global awareness-raising day to help protect our planet from asteroid impact
GMV is currently working on the preliminary design of the AIM mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and also on guidance, navigation and control (GNC) and operations to the mission’s target, the binary asteroid Dydimos
ESA will decide in 2016 whether it approves the mission; if so, AIM would be launched in 2020, reaching Didymoon 18 months later and then beginning to analyze it
AIM has a 200-million-euro budget