10 January 2016
Space Mining company showcase the first 3D printed object made from asteroid metals
... at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV. Planetary resources is an asteroid mining company whose goal is to expand the economy of humanity into space through the use and pursuit of resources. While showcasing the 3D printed prototype...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... amount of investment, which shows us that goals that have not been reached by traditional space industry – serviced space, mining – could theoretically be accomplished by companies that use small spacecraft in their projects. Such companies...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... applications - communications, broadcasting, weather forecasting, navigation, medicine, security and remote sensing - to embrace space tourism, space mining, space-based solar power, and the future settlement on the Moon and Mars. Along with this...
08 April 2019
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
..., with two subsequent chapters concentrating on the Stardust and Rosetta missions, respectively. Following a penultimate chapter on space mining, the author concludes with the issue of ‘extinction events’ and the “mission to save planet Earth”. The...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
... exceeding their nation’s career limits for radiation exposure. Orion is NASA’s first spacecraft for longduration deep space exploration. It will transport humans to and from interplanetary destinations such as asteroids, the Moon and eventually Mars...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... be addressed in terms of national legislation. New legislation in the US - known as the ‘Space Act of 2015’ - is focused on the space mining of asteroids rather than diverting dangerous space rocks from hitting Earth. With the US enacting this type...
