The Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), established in 2016, is a division within NASA's Science Mission Directorate. As a planetary defense organization, its primary mission involves detecting, tracking, and cataloging near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets, particularly those that pose a potential impact hazard to Earth. The PDCO coordinates efforts across U.S. government agencies, including FEMA and the Department of Energy, and international partners to plan responses to potential impact threats, develop mitigation strategies, and provide warnings about close approaches.
All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
StarFall, created by SDL with support from NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, is a near real-time bolide detection software suite.
DART was designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office.
NASA established the Planetary Defense Coordination Office in 2016 to manage the agency’s planetary defense efforts.
DART is directed by NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office and managed by the Planetary Missions Program Office at Marshall Space Flight Center.