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, [...]
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Characterizing Near Earth Asteroids with Radar
NASA released images of a wide asteroid approaching Earth from October 28 to October 30. The images were taken with the 70-meters wide Deep Space network antenna at Goldstone, California. “The radar images of asteroid 2007 PA8 indicate that it is an elongated, irregularly shaped object approximately one mile (1.6 km) wide, with ridges and perhaps craters,” NASA’s Jet Propulsion [...]
ElectroDynamic Debris Eliminator Receives Funding
In February, NASa awarded a $1.9 million contract to Star Technology and Research (STAR) to develop the ElectroDynamic Debris Eliminator (EDDE) vehicle, designed to collect debris from low Earth orbit (LEO). “The focus is maturing technologies for EDDE on the ground,” said Joe Carroll of Tether Applications, which is partnered on the project. “We may get a flight experiment later [...]
