February 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...which is ill-equipped to effectively pick winners and losers in space mining. It will be fascinating to see how Luxembourg responds to the... IX issues that must be tackled before actual mining operations can commence? Some government, somewhere, will...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
.... The latter is necessary to create comfortable life-sustaining conditions for selenauts, along with implementing technologies for mining and processing lunar minerals. Model of water vapour thermal emission from the regolith bed surface. Mineral...
19 December 2016
JAXA signs an agreement for the development and creation of a lunar mining industry
... Agency has signed a new agreement with ispace.inc, a robotic-exploration company in a first step towards developing a mining industry on the Moon. The collaboration between Jaxa and ispace.inc, was sealed with a a Memorandum of Understanding...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... satellite can be ‘manufactured’ via 3D printing greatly reduces its manufacturing cost. One characteristic of the new space mining companies is that they have typically recruited partners to help them develop these new types of technology. They...
17 September 2021
NASA funds project to mine the Moon with swarms of autonomous robots
... when perfected, could assist astronauts on the moon with laborious mining tasks. "The idea is to have the robots build, ..., part of which will be used to train students in space mining. One of the reasons Momayez and Thenga decided to pursue this ...
28 September 2016
Yorkshire mines to help shed light on life on Mars
...where best to look but deep underground in Yorkshire, England. The mines in Boulby, Yorkshire which stretch a kilometre down and out under...and deep underground science projects. Past projects at the mine have ranged from the search for Dark Matter in ...
