If gold surges 140,000-fold, then asteroid mining works
Mining News Pro - I confess: I’m a Star Trek nerd — and commodities enthusiast, too. Thus, asteroid mining should be my personal heaven. On Sunday, I watched with the excitement of a five-year old how a NASA space probe brought back the largest-ever stash of asteroid rubble to Earth. But was this feat a step closer to commercial space mining? Not even close.
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Asteroid mining startup AstroForge readies first mission
Mining News Pro - AstroForge, a startup with plans to mine asteroids, is getting ready to launch the first of its two missions on Friday, of which the main objective is to test the firm’s technique for refining platinum from a sample of asteroid-like material.
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Martian moon could be crucial for asteroid mining
Mining News Pro - Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have shown that mining the Main Belt of asteroids that orbit between Mars and Jupiter could be done profitably if spacecraft were deployed from a station in an orbit similar to that of the Martian moon Phobos.
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NASA finds rare metal asteroid worth more than global economy
Mining News Pro - NASA’s Hubble Telescope has obtained images of an asteroid so rich in metals that its worth puts our global economy to shame. Think $10,000 quadrillion ($10,000,000,000,000,000,000), compared to the world’s economy, which was worth about $142 trillion in 2019.
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Water from near-earth asteroids could fuel space mining
Mining News Pro - Scientists planning to start mining the moon as early as 2025 may soon shift their attention to other celestial bodies as a new study suggests that there are about 1,000 asteroids closer to our planet than the lunar surface and which contain large amounts of the most precious resource: water.
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Dust samples from asteroid could help understand origin of precious minerals
Mining News Pro - Scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA reported this week that the Hayabusa2 spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Ryugu and will start collecting samples of the dust in its surface.
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Scottish firm to launch UK`s first asteroid mining mission
Mining News Pro - Scottish startup firm, Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC), is ready to take on the mission of launching the UK`s first asteroid mining journey.
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