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Bookmark or Share- 5 Top Space Mining Companies - Built InThese companies design satellites, robotics and other advanced technologies intended to make space mining possible. Space mining involves scouting asteroids and other objects beyond Earth’s atmosphere that are rich in useful resources, and deploying machinery to extract those materials.
- Asteroid mining - WikipediaAsteroid mining is the hypothetical extraction of materials from asteroids and other minor planets, including near-Earth objects. [1] 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.
- AstroForge: How this startup plans to make asteroid mining a reality ...AstroForge is, in short, attempting to send into space a tiny refinery that can extract minerals out of an asteroid, then bring the valuable metals back to Earth, leaving the rest.
- Space mining: Opportunities, challenges and projectionsSpace mining is emerging as an industry that aims to boost space development and improve the sustainability of humanity. Where resource extraction in space will become a tangible reality that will benefit both science and the global economy.
- Space Mining is Coming - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)Scalable Space Mining production/utilization capabilities including sustainable commodities* on the lunar & Mars surface • 30 to 60 metric tons per lander mission • 100’s to 1000’s metric tons per year of for Cis-lunar Space
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