October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... years, while platinum, copper and nickel will last for 40 years. Alternative ‘storeroom’ The Moon and near-Earth asteroids present an alternative ‘storeroom’ containing millions of tons of iron, nickel, cobalt, platinum and other metals. In the last...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
...Center DLR. It’s a direct descendant of the MASCOT-1 lander currently aboard JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission, embarked on a mission to Near-Earth Asteroid 1999 JU3 for a 2018 touchdown. MASCOT-2 will be largely identical to its predecessor, building on its...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
...between such objects down to around 0.1 AU. Radar image of near-Earth asteroid A nuclear flash at some random point in space within ...that comes from vaporising the nuclear device itself. Near-Earth asteroid 2006 DP14 It may be possible to engineer a...
11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
...year-old proposal to send a robotic spacecraft to a near Earth asteroid and bring back a boulder from it to cislunar ... million for work on the robotic spacecraft, called the Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM). Space technology came out ahead ...
04 December 2020
Asteroid sample from Hayabusa2 to land on Earth 6 December
... Nakazawa. Hayabusa2 has had two attempts at collecting material from Ryugu during its rendezvous with the near-Earth asteroid. It’s first effort in February last year followed straight after the probe touched down on the...
01 June 2016
Planetary Resources, Inc. secures funding for Ceres
... team has been working on the critical technologies required to detect and identify the most commercially viable near-Earth asteroids and their resources,” said Chris Lewicki, President and CEO, Planetary Resources, Inc. “To characterize these...
