March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... world, it revealed a fascinating, complex, alien place more akin to Earth and other terrestrial planets than to typical asteroids. Now it is again sailing on the celestial seas and in March, it will be at its new, permanent home, dwarf planet...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... friction between nations over the potential economic benefits of space resources. One of Planetary Resources’ targets is an X-type asteroid which may contain more platinum than has ever been mined on Earth to date. Composed of primarily metal...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... space companies to date have been the so-called asteroid mining companies: Planetary Resources (PRI) and Deep ... Both PRI and DSI seem to have pivoted from pure play asteroid mining to position themselves as space resource companies, focusing in the...
22 October 2015
‘Great Pumpkin’ Halloween flyby: implications of asteroid 2015 TB145 discovery
...’s Ed Lu and Debbie Lewis have pointed out – we must work out new approaches for dealing with the asteroid threat. Whether it’s better-positioned telescopes or innovative logistical approaches to dealing with an actual impact scenario, the space...
