asteroid mining
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Falcon Heavy May Have Drastically Increased The Number Of Asteroids We Can Mine
Asteroid mining is about more than just heading up into space and bringing back a rock full of platinum – you actually need to land something on just the right asteroid.
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A New Sensor Can Sniff Out Gold Inside Space Rocks
There’s gold in them thar asteroids — if only we could find it. Well, and get to it, extract it, and haul it back to Earth. You know, details. But that first part just got easier, thanks to a clever new sensor designed to sniff out gold, platinum, and even diamond inside asteroids.
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How Asteroid Mining Could Pay For Our First Space Colony
Many of us dream of living on other planets, but are two things we’ll need before it can actually happen: money and raw materials. Now some companies say they have a solution to this problem. They will mine asteroids for valuable metal ores, and for basic resources like water that we’ll need once we’re far…
