March 2026
Humanity – the potential of space
... without harming any ecosystem? Imagine moving all mining and resource extraction off Earth entirely and never...green energy technologies - can be sourced from space, ending destructive mining practices on Earth. As we expand into space, we will...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
... reusable in-space transportation system that can be fuelled by propellants mined from water found on the lunar surface or asteroids. With ...development and establishment of large scale space mining and manufacturing infrastructure Use of solar power ...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...grid instabilities in North America and (probably) the sea mine explosions in Southeast Asia. Before and after these episodic ... geomagnetic storm would have been devastating to more than sea mines. We have an armada of ground-based and space-based...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... planet as fast as we can. In the meantime, we’ll be mining asteroids for water and precious metals and digging in the crust of the... today. Space exploration now – a futuristic vision of mining asteroids and the Moon for water, minerals and precious ...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
... a body such as the asteroid from which their building materials were mined, then they stay closer together, but mutual collisions can be a...can best provide the building materials and can they be mined cheaply enough? It turns out that nitrogen is a ...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... for nickel and cobalt is expected to rise significantly due to the limits on the available supply, and asteroid mining is viewed as a potential solution. In the short term, however, it may be that these resources would be cheaper to use in space...
