Space Resources for an Unlimited Future | Deep Space Industries Peter Diamandis – Life or Death Asteroid mining wikipedia Artist's concept of asteroid mining Asteroid mining is the exploitation of raw materials from asteroids and other minor planets, including near-Earth objects.[1] Minerals and volatiles could be mined from an asteroid or spent comet then used in space for in-situ utilization (e.g. construction materials and rocket propellant) or taken back to Earth. These include gold, iridium, silver, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhenium, rhodium, ruthenium and tungsten for transport back to Earth; and iron, cobalt, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, aluminium and titanium for construction, water, and oxygen to sustain astronauts, as well as hydrogen, ammonia, and oxygen for use as rocket propellant. Purpose[edit] In 2006, the Keck Observatory announced that the binary Jupiter trojan 617 Patroclus,[12] and possibly large numbers of other Jupiter trojans, are likely extinct comets and consist largely of water ice. Asteroid selection[edit] Asteroid cataloging[edit] Mining considerations[edit] Surface mining[edit]
Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline Peter Diamandis – Evidence of Abundance #13: Inexpensive Technology How Asteroid Mining Could Work (Infographic) | Planetary Resources Asteroid Mining Long a staple of science fiction, space mining could soon become a reality. Here is a look at what’s out there and how we might get it. These bodies of rock, metals and ice range in size from a few feet across up to 610 miles (975 kilometers) in the case of the largest, Ceres. Asteroids are often classified according to their spectral type, which has to do with the type of light they reflect. C-type (carbonaceous): 75 percent of asteroids are made of dark materials (example: 253 Mathilde) S-type (silicon-based, or stony) comprise about 17 percent of the asteroids (example: Eros) In addition to these major classes, there is also an X-group that includes various types with similar spectra, but likely different compositions, as well as other smaller asteroid classes. The study of meteorites, space rocks that have fallen to Earth, reveals a variety of useful materials that could be extracted: • Platinum: precious metal used in electronics and as a catalyst in chemical reactions.
Elon Musk Wants Giant SpaceX Spaceship to Fly People to Mars by 2024 SpaceX aims to launch its first cargo mission to Mars in 2022 and send people toward the Red Planet just two years after that. Those are just two of the highlights of the company's current Mars-colonization plan, which SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled early Friday morning EDT (Sept. 29) at the 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia. Musk's talk — which took place Friday afternoon local Adelaide time — served to update the architecture the billionaire entrepreneur revealed at last year's IAC, in Guadalajara, Mexico. That previous presentation introduced a huge, reusable rocket-spaceship combo called the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), which Musk envisioned helping to establish a million-person city on Mars within the next 50 to 100 years. As Musk described it last year, the roughly 40-foot-wide (12 meters) ITS booster would feature 42 Raptor engines. The new plan retains this same basic idea, but with some important tweaks.
Peter Diamandis – Self-driving Cars are Coming ExplainingTheFuture.com : Resources from Space You are in: Future Trends : Resources from Space Resources from Space Resources from Space is a series of videos that explains how we may obtain energy and raw materials from beyond our first planet. Please click a thumbnail below to watch a video, or read on for more information in text and images. Beyond Sustainability The resource requirements of the human race continue to escalate, with the United Nations anticipating a three-fold increase in resource usage between 2010 and 2050. As the resource supplies of the Earth continue to dwindle, the only place we can find fresh supplies of both energy and raw materials is out in space. Solar Energy from Space Space-based solar power, also known just as space solar power, would generate off-world energy by placing solar power satellites in orbit. Solar power satellites would be immune to cloud cover, the changing seasons, and atmospheric haze. You can read more about space-based solar power on the Citizens for Space Based Solar Power website.
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