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== Post-NASA career == {{CSS image crop|Image = Ed Lu by Christopher Michel in 2022.jpg|bSize = 233|cWidth = 220|cHeight = 301|oTop = 9|oLeft = 13|Location = right|Description = Lu in 2022}} On August 10, 2007, Lu announced he was retiring from NASA to work at [[Google]].<ref name="NASA-bio Ed Lu" /><ref name="NASA-Press Release: 07-176">{{cite news | first = Allard | last = Beutel | title = Astronaut Ed Lu Leaves NASA | date = 2007-08-10 | publisher = NASA | url = http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/aug/HQ_07176_Ed_Lu_Leaves.html | access-date = 2007-08-12 | archive-date = 2021-03-17 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210317050114/https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/aug/HQ_07176_Ed_Lu_Leaves.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> In June 2010, Lu left Google and worked out of the Sunfire Offices.<ref>[http://www.sunfire-offices.com/people Sunfire Offices<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120911153330/http://www.sunfire-offices.com/people |date=2012-09-11 }}</ref> In September 2011, Lu joined [[Liquid Robotics]] as Chief of Innovative Applications, where his work includes outreach to promote new applications for ocean science,<ref>{{cite news|title=Edward T. Lu Joins Liquid Robotics as Chief of Innovative Applications (USA)|date=September 16, 2011|url=https://www.offshore-energy.biz/edward-t-lu-joins-liquid-robotics-as-chief-of-innovative-applications-usa/|publisher=OffshoreEnergy.biz|access-date=January 2, 2023}}</ref> and in 2012, he joined Hover Inc. as its Chief Technology Officer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_20796152/google-unveils-new-maps-features-amid-fight-apple |date=June 6, 2012 |publisher=Silicon Valley News |title=Google Unveils New Maps Features Amid Apple Fight |access-date=July 1, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714153504/http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_20796152/google-unveils-new-maps-features-amid-fight-apple |archive-date=July 14, 2014 }}</ref> On June 28, 2012, Lu, with Apollo 9 Astronaut [[Rusty Schweickart]] and [[G. Scott Hubbard]], Astronautics professor at [[Stanford University]] announced plans to build and operate the first [[Private spaceflight|privately]]-funded deep space mission called [[Sentinel (space telescope)|Sentinel]]. Their non-profit [[B612 Foundation]] will launch an [[Infrared astronomy|infrared]] [[space telescope]] in orbit around the Sun, where from a distance as great as {{convert|270,000,000|km|sp=us}} from Earth, where it would detect and track asteroids and other [[near-Earth object]]s posing threats to the planet. On October 25, 2016 B612 and Lu endorsed NASA's NEOcam proposed mission and ended the Sentinel project. As of 2022, Lu is working on a new project to find "killer asteroids" by analyzing terabytes of archived data. So far, the [[B612 Foundation]], cofounded by Lu, has found over 100 new potentially-threatening asteroids. This immense number-crunching effort is supported in part by Google's applied artificial intelligence project.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/science/asteroids-algorithm-planetary-defense.html "Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight."], article by [[Kenneth Chang]], New York Times, May 31, 2022 </ref>
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