According to Aviation Week, NASA’s budget request for 2014 will include $100 million for a robotic asteroid capture mission that will aim not only to find and capture a small asteroid but also to deliver it into the vicinity of the Moon. SPACE.com reported that NASA officials were not allowed to comment on details of the agency’s 2014 budget request until [...]
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NASA Seeks Commercial Partners for Mining Robot
NASA has announced that it is looking for commercial partners to invest in its RASSOR mining robot project. Just one week after Deep Space Industries announced that it would be entering the asteroid mining business, NASA revealed that it is developing hardware for the extraction of space-based materials. RASSOR, which stands for Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot, has a mass of 45kg, [...]
Moonrush’s Mining Economy Coming Closer to Reality
In 2004 Dennis Wingo, founder of Skycorp, published Moonrush: Improving Life on Earth with the Moon’s Resources. The book advocates for creation of an off-world economy based on mining of resources such as platinum and methane from the Moon. Although it received little fanfare at the time, Wingo’s work is getting another look as asteroid mining seems poised for a commercial takeoff. [...]
Asteroid Mining: To Infinity and Beyond, But What are the Legal Implications?
April 24, 2012 marked a milestone in human activities in outer space with the announcement by a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors of the formation of Planetary Resources, Inc. The company, which features such investors as aerospace innovator Ross Perot, Jr. and filmmaker James Cameron, is being led by President and Chief Engineer Chris Lewicki, a former NASA Mars [...]
