& DEFENSE
APOPHIS.
Inside geosynchronous orbit. Safely past Earth.
April 13, 2029. An ancient asteroid crosses between Earth and geosynchronous altitude. Enter the encounter. See the science. Experience the moment.
REFERENCE: NASA / JPL
April 13, 2029. An ancient asteroid crosses between Earth and geosynchronous altitude. Enter the encounter. See the science. Experience the moment.
Asteroid (99942) Apophis makes a safe, exceptionally close Earth flyby on April 13, 2029. The facts below are grounded in a NASA/JPL SBDB Close-Approach Data record. This is an interactive, independently branded MineSpace visualization, not a NASA mission or live spacecraft operation.
Reference data: The baseline close-approach distance and velocities come from an example Apophis record in NASA/JPL's publicly documented Close-Approach Data API (orbit ID 206). You can retrieve a current record using the button below. API records may be updated as observations improve.
Calculated model: The geometry mode uses an idealized Earth-centered, two-body hyperbolic flyby constrained by the JPL nominal periapsis distance and hyperbolic excess speed. It is not an integrated JPL ephemeris. Earth-centric encounter-plane orientation, lighting and the hero sequence are artistic. The asteroid marker is greatly enlarged. Times from the JPL CAD API are TDB, not civil UTC.
Mission status: The observer/camera spacecraft shown in the cinematic is conceptual. MineSpace does not claim to have launched, commanded or rendezvoused with Apophis. The 2029 encounter is safe; there is no impact scenario portrayed here.
REFERENCE SNAPSHOT / JPL CAD EXAMPLE RECORD / ID 206
Carry this encounter beyond the screen. Generate an original mission ID, save the encounter card or share the link to the Apophis experience. Public links work after deployment to MineSpace.us/MissionZero/.
MISSION CARD DESCRIBES A SIMULATED PUBLIC EXPERIENCE, NOT AN ACTUAL SPACECRAFT FLIGHT.
Step outside the film. Examine the actual published close-approach constraints and explore a clearly identified two-body flyby approximation.
At closest approach, the model is constrained to the published JPL geocentric range and hyperbolic-excess velocity.
Nominal close-approach distance, time and relative speed from NASA/JPL SBDB CAD. The record can be refreshed online; an offline source snapshot remains available.
Earth-centered Kepler hyperbola, mean Earth radius and constant Earth gravity parameter. The chart and scrub positions are not a JPL Horizons ephemeris or a literal sky map.
Earth orientation, asteroid shape, object scale, spacecraft artwork and encounter-plane direction. No spacecraft flight or asteroid-impact scenario is claimed.
From a rare natural encounter to a testable exploration architecture. Explore the workstreams that turn Mission Zero into engineering decisions.
Numerical trajectory and encounter-analysis research.
Reusable orbital-vehicle research. Not an assigned Apophis flight vehicle.
Communications and field-link research. Not a contracted ground network.
Mission Zero is a MineSpace Inc. company mission. This public architecture communicates planned workstreams, not approved spacecraft hardware or a completed flight. The encounter renderer uses published constraints and an illustrative two-body model—not a flight-ready JPL ephemeris.