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Bookmark or Share- AstroForge: How this startup plans to make asteroid mining a reality ...Companies across the world have raised tens of millions of dollars to test asteroid-mining technologies. Some say the idea is a prohibitively expensive, far-fetched fantasy. But 38-year-old ...
- Asteroid mining: Helping to meet Earth's natural resource demands - BBCProf Bridges believes commercial space mining is a "fascinating area", but is doubtful it will solve the world's resource problem. The trick, Mitch says, will be finding the right asteroid. And...
- Asteroid mining - WikipediaAsteroid mining is the hypothetical extraction of materials from asteroids and other minor planets, including near-Earth objects. Notable asteroid mining challenges include the high cost of spaceflight, unreliable identification of asteroids which are suitable for mining, and the challenges of extracting usable material in a space environment.
- The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the LastSometime in the coming year, a spacecraft from AstroForge, an American asteroid-mining firm, may be launched on a mission to a rocky object near Earth’s orbit. If successful, it will be the...
- New NASA Mission to Help Us Learn How to Mine AsteroidsAsteroids could one day be a vast new source of scarce material if the financial and technological obstacles can be overcome. Asteroids are lumps of metals, rock and dust, sometimes laced with ices and tar, which are the cosmic “leftovers” from the solar system’s formation about 4.5 billion years ago.
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