#asteroid-mining — Public Fediverse posts
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116 space resources, #AsteroidMining ⚒️ and #ISRU commercial activities https://www.factoriesinspace.com/space-resources
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116 space resources, #AsteroidMining ⚒️ and #ISRU commercial activities https://www.factoriesinspace.com/space-resources
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8pEfXCxxM
#TransAstra aims to move a 100-ton #asteroid ☄️ to stable orbit for processing. TransAstra’s first asteroid-retrieval mission could launch later this year and rendezvous with an asteroid in 📆 2028 or 2029 https://spacenews.com/transastra-aims-to-move-100-ton-asteroid-to-stable-orbit-for-processing/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8pEfXCxxM
#TransAstra aims to move a 100-ton #asteroid ☄️ to stable orbit for processing. TransAstra’s first asteroid-retrieval mission could launch later this year and rendezvous with an asteroid in 📆 2028 or 2029 https://spacenews.com/transastra-aims-to-move-100-ton-asteroid-to-stable-orbit-for-processing/
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#AstroForge : “What is the ultimate pinnacle commercial case for space ? It’s to go mine ⚒️ the universe 🌌”.
#SpaceX : “We plan to pursue #AsteroidMining operations to extract metals and other critical resources from near-Earth and main-belt #asteroids, providing abundant raw materials for space-based industries and reducing the need to launch mass from Earth”
https://spacenews.com/astroforge-completes-deepspace-2-spacecraft/
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#AstroForge : “What is the ultimate pinnacle commercial case for space ? It’s to go mine ⚒️ the universe 🌌”.
#SpaceX : “We plan to pursue #AsteroidMining operations to extract metals and other critical resources from near-Earth and main-belt #asteroids, providing abundant raw materials for space-based industries and reducing the need to launch mass from Earth”
https://spacenews.com/astroforge-completes-deepspace-2-spacecraft/
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@michaelgemar profitable large-scale mining from Martian orbit could also lead to routine access to the Martian surface https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/mars-base-asteroid-exploration-and-mining
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@michaelgemar profitable large-scale mining from Martian orbit could also lead to routine access to the Martian surface https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/mars-base-asteroid-exploration-and-mining
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AstroForge completes DeepSpace-2 spacecraft
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/astroforge-completes-deepspace-2-spacecraft/
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NEW METHOD PROMISES EASIER ACCESS TO NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS
How does the new asteroid trajectory method reduce energy costs for space missions? Learn how researchers are making it easier to reach near-Earth objects.
#spaceexploration, #asteroidmining, #nasa, #spacephysics, #scienceupdate
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Researchers have found a new way to calculate paths to asteroids. This method uses less energy than older models used by NASA.
#spaceexploration, #asteroidmining, #nasa, #spacephysics, #scienceupdate
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TransAstra aims to move 100-ton asteroid to stable orbit for processing
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Deep space, dim objects: Why asteroid mining caught the Space Force’s eye
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@60sRefugee do you mean by #AsteroidMining or just the construction from launched materials ?
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@60sRefugee do you mean by #AsteroidMining or just the construction from launched materials ?
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We can either have sustainability, or we can have a world in which everything is electronic and digital and connected to everything and "intelligent" and so on, where everybody drives around in an electric car, but which suddenly collapses, maybe next Thursday, maybe 25 years from now.
The real problem is growth, which has become virtually impossible. We can't grow the economy anymore, the economy is already far too big for the planet, and whatever some marketing bastards tell you about #TheCloud or how digital devices are so bloody efficient, don't believe them.
People only look at how much electricity devices use. They don't look at how much of which raw material goes into the production, what kind of dangerous chemicals are used in the process, where the energy for processing the materials comes from (a lot of it is heat, not electricity), and which ecosystems get damaged by which partial process in what kind of manner.
We won't solve anything if we just replace internal combustion engines with electric motors and tanks with batteries, we'll just continue in our rape of Mother Earth, only on a slightly different path.Our entire way of life is unsustainable. There is no magical technology that can fix this; in fact, every tiny bit of technological complexity we add to the mix makes everything just more fragile, more likely to collapse. I don't believe there is any way we can avoid the upcoming End of the Industrial Age. However, there are still pathways on which our civilisation ends in a slow decline over the next two or three centuries, and there are others in which we just drop off a cliff and civilisation is over within a few decades, peaking in some kind of cataclysm.
And we won't avoid the apocalypse if we continue to tell ourselves we can just consume our way out of the #Polycrisis by making "sustainable" consumer choices. You can't buy a better tomorrow, tomorrow will be bleak and ugly no matter what we do because today is already bleak and ugly, we just choose to hide it behind the curtain. Industrial civilisation is an attempt to build an entirely man-made world and keep the real world out. It has been fuelled by fossil carbon, beginning with coal, then adding oil and gas to the mix. It has been destroying the real world, the living world, all the fucking time. We didn't want to see the land around us suffer, so we created nature reserves and planted entire new "forests" (as if a hundred year old tree plantation could replace an ecosystem that had grown for a thousand years or many), stopped dumping toxic chemicals in the rivers, and just let that kind of shit happen where only poor people live because nobody cares about the poor, anyway, especially when they're not even White.
We're living on the last scraps. We're dependent on huge masses of very rare elements and gigantic masses of more common ones, we're digging up entire landscapes to get all those sweet, sweet metals, and people keep dreaming about asteroid mining to avoid facing the fact we're running out. And at the same time, we let economists run our world. People who believe that the economy can exist even if the ecology collapses, because they totally ignore the simple fact that we are just monkey, we are upright walking storytelling naked apes, we have the same needs and wants and drives and emotions and instincts as bonobos and chimpanzees, and we're living on the same fucking planet where non-human primates are dying, their numbers are dwindling. Why isn't anybody worried about that? A planet that is bad for primates is bad for us because we are bloody primates.
If you look closely at all the technology which is marketed as "sustainable", you will notice that if yu look at the entire production process, it is everything but. Using things that are a lot less bad than what we're doing today is a huge improvement, of course, but it means that we're still following the wrong road, just at a slower speed. The entire concepts around which our civilisation has organised itself are unsustainable, that's the bitter truth. This civilisation must inevitably end, one way or another. If we want it to end by slowly petering out while new civilisations grow from the widening cracks, we need a revolution which ends #Capitalism on a global scale ASAP, and which rapidly dismantles nation-states, replacing them with a federation of small collectives of humans that share the same landscape, collectives which will then figure out ways of repairing and restoring the ecosystem of which they are an essential part. Industrial design must change significantly, putting the longevity and repairability of complex artifacts at a very high priority in order to reduce overall production.
Sorry for the long rant. #climatechaos #ecocide #extinction #biodiversitycollapse #collapse #mining #asteroidmining
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We can either have sustainability, or we can have a world in which everything is electronic and digital and connected to everything and "intelligent" and so on, where everybody drives around in an electric car, but which suddenly collapses, maybe next Thursday, maybe 25 years from now.
The real problem is growth, which has become virtually impossible. We can't grow the economy anymore, the economy is already far too big for the planet, and whatever some marketing bastards tell you about #TheCloud or how digital devices are so bloody efficient, don't believe them.
People only look at how much electricity devices use. They don't look at how much of which raw material goes into the production, what kind of dangerous chemicals are used in the process, where the energy for processing the materials comes from (a lot of it is heat, not electricity), and which ecosystems get damaged by which partial process in what kind of manner.
We won't solve anything if we just replace internal combustion engines with electric motors and tanks with batteries, we'll just continue in our rape of Mother Earth, only on a slightly different path.Our entire way of life is unsustainable. There is no magical technology that can fix this; in fact, every tiny bit of technological complexity we add to the mix makes everything just more fragile, more likely to collapse. I don't believe there is any way we can avoid the upcoming End of the Industrial Age. However, there are still pathways on which our civilisation ends in a slow decline over the next two or three centuries, and there are others in which we just drop off a cliff and civilisation is over within a few decades, peaking in some kind of cataclysm.
And we won't avoid the apocalypse if we continue to tell ourselves we can just consume our way out of the #Polycrisis by making "sustainable" consumer choices. You can't buy a better tomorrow, tomorrow will be bleak and ugly no matter what we do because today is already bleak and ugly, we just choose to hide it behind the curtain. Industrial civilisation is an attempt to build an entirely man-made world and keep the real world out. It has been fuelled by fossil carbon, beginning with coal, then adding oil and gas to the mix. It has been destroying the real world, the living world, all the fucking time. We didn't want to see the land around us suffer, so we created nature reserves and planted entire new "forests" (as if a hundred year old tree plantation could replace an ecosystem that had grown for a thousand years or many), stopped dumping toxic chemicals in the rivers, and just let that kind of shit happen where only poor people live because nobody cares about the poor, anyway, especially when they're not even White.
We're living on the last scraps. We're dependent on huge masses of very rare elements and gigantic masses of more common ones, we're digging up entire landscapes to get all those sweet, sweet metals, and people keep dreaming about asteroid mining to avoid facing the fact we're running out. And at the same time, we let economists run our world. People who believe that the economy can exist even if the ecology collapses, because they totally ignore the simple fact that we are just monkey, we are upright walking storytelling naked apes, we have the same needs and wants and drives and emotions and instincts as bonobos and chimpanzees, and we're living on the same fucking planet where non-human primates are dying, their numbers are dwindling. Why isn't anybody worried about that? A planet that is bad for primates is bad for us because we are bloody primates.
If you look closely at all the technology which is marketed as "sustainable", you will notice that if yu look at the entire production process, it is everything but. Using things that are a lot less bad than what we're doing today is a huge improvement, of course, but it means that we're still following the wrong road, just at a slower speed. The entire concepts around which our civilisation has organised itself are unsustainable, that's the bitter truth. This civilisation must inevitably end, one way or another. If we want it to end by slowly petering out while new civilisations grow from the widening cracks, we need a revolution which ends #Capitalism on a global scale ASAP, and which rapidly dismantles nation-states, replacing them with a federation of small collectives of humans that share the same landscape, collectives which will then figure out ways of repairing and restoring the ecosystem of which they are an essential part. Industrial design must change significantly, putting the longevity and repairability of complex artifacts at a very high priority in order to reduce overall production.
Sorry for the long rant. #climatechaos #ecocide #extinction #biodiversitycollapse #collapse #mining #asteroidmining
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The lunar mining gold rush is coming – and success requires bridging two worlds
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Researchers say the #Moon 🌙 craters could be home to trillions of dollars worth of precious #metals and could be mined instead of sending probes to #asteroids ☄️ https://www.independent.co.uk/space/moon-craters-platinum-asteroid-mining-b2834248.html
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Researchers say the #Moon 🌙 craters could be home to trillions of dollars worth of precious #metals and could be mined instead of sending probes to #asteroids ☄️ https://www.independent.co.uk/space/moon-craters-platinum-asteroid-mining-b2834248.html
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🪐 Nuovo #Devlog di Wardrome – Il mining di asteroidi, fatto per divertirsi.
Niente droni, scanner o raffinerie:
💥 Boom all’asteroide
🌀 Risorse aspirate in automatico
✅ Subito di nuovo in azione
Articolo (in inglese) con confronto tra i diversi giochi spaziali:
https://wardrome.com/asteroid-resource-gathering-mechanics-across-3d-space-themed-games/
#wardrome #devlog #gamedev #indiegames #spacegame #asteroidmining -
🪐 Nuovo #Devlog di Wardrome – Il mining di asteroidi, fatto per divertirsi.
Niente droni, scanner o raffinerie:
💥 Boom all’asteroide
🌀 Risorse aspirate in automatico
✅ Subito di nuovo in azione
Articolo (in inglese) con confronto tra i diversi giochi spaziali:
https://wardrome.com/asteroid-resource-gathering-mechanics-across-3d-space-themed-games/
#wardrome #devlog #gamedev #indiegames #spacegame #asteroidmining -
🪐 New Wardrome #Devlog – Asteroid mining, the fun way.
Some games go full simulation with drones, scanners, and refineries. Others keep it quick and explosive.
In Wardrome, it’s simple:
💥 Blow up the asteroid
🌀 Auto-collect the loot
✅ Back to the action
Read the full article (English) comparing asteroid mining in space games:
https://wardrome.com/asteroid-resource-gathering-mechanics-across-3d-space-themed-games/
#wardrome #devlog #gamedev #indiegames #spacegame #asteroidmining -
This week a look at updating weapons from Starfinder 1E to Starfinder 2E, using some dwarven mining equipment as an example.
https://solorunstudio.com/2025/06/29/starfinder-2e-converting-weapons/
#Paizo #Starfinder2E #Weapons #Dwarf #Mining #AsteroidMining #DiggyDiggyHole
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Leave the Oceans alone, mine the dead rocks in Space instead.
And Unionise those Belters! -
Leave the Oceans alone, mine the dead rocks in Space instead.
And Unionise those Belters! -
Nearly every ground station 📡 experienced some kind of failure:
• Wrong configuration
• Incorrect pointing coordinates
• An unexpected loss of a power amplifier the day before our launch
• Interference from a recently built cell tower that, although not in our frequency band, created enough noise to disrupt communications
• Insufficient mid-path gain, meaning weak signals were not getting to our radio receiver
https://www.astroforge.com/updates/odint-mission-debrief -
Nearly every ground station 📡 experienced some kind of failure:
• Wrong configuration
• Incorrect pointing coordinates
• An unexpected loss of a power amplifier the day before our launch
• Interference from a recently built cell tower that, although not in our frequency band, created enough noise to disrupt communications
• Insufficient mid-path gain, meaning weak signals were not getting to our radio receiver
https://www.astroforge.com/updates/odint-mission-debrief -
“A single one-kilometer-diameter asteroid, if it was platinum-bearing, would contain about 117,000 tons of #platinum. That’s about 680 years of global supply. You’re talking about centuries of platinum demand from a single #asteroid ☄️”. #Odin will arrive in late 📆 2025 after a journey of about 300 days to #2022OB5 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/science/astroforge-launch-asteroid-mining.html
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“A single one-kilometer-diameter asteroid, if it was platinum-bearing, would contain about 117,000 tons of #platinum. That’s about 680 years of global supply. You’re talking about centuries of platinum demand from a single #asteroid ☄️”. #Odin will arrive in late 📆 2025 after a journey of about 300 days to #2022OB5 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/science/astroforge-launch-asteroid-mining.html
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Recent missions to rendezvous with and to orbit and land on #asteroids ☄️ have demonstrated that #SpaceMining could be just a matter of time ⏱️ https://phys.org/news/2024-10-asteroid-potential-trillion-dollar-industry.html
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Recent missions to rendezvous with and to orbit and land on #asteroids ☄️ have demonstrated that #SpaceMining could be just a matter of time ⏱️ https://phys.org/news/2024-10-asteroid-potential-trillion-dollar-industry.html
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If there is water on Psyche then it will make mining it easier, handy stuff that Water.
Now is the time for future Belters to unionise -
If there is water on Psyche then it will make mining it easier, handy stuff that Water.
Now is the time for future Belters to unionise -
One of two metallic #asteroids floating in Earth's vicinity could boast more #iron, #nickel and #cobalt than the entirety of our #global 🌏 metal reserves. https://www.cnet.com/science/rare-asteroids-near-earth-may-become-targets-for-space-mining/
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One of two metallic #asteroids floating in Earth's vicinity could boast more #iron, #nickel and #cobalt than the entirety of our #global 🌏 metal reserves. https://www.cnet.com/science/rare-asteroids-near-earth-may-become-targets-for-space-mining/
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#AstroForge launches the #Odin mission in 📆 January 2025. A third attempt is planned for late 2025. The fourth mission will focus on extracting and refining #asteroids’ metals before returning to Earth https://www.mining.com/astroforge-secures-first-ever-commercial-license-for-asteroid-mission/
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#AstroForge launches the #Odin mission in 📆 January 2025. A third attempt is planned for late 2025. The fourth mission will focus on extracting and refining #asteroids’ metals before returning to Earth https://www.mining.com/astroforge-secures-first-ever-commercial-license-for-asteroid-mission/
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#AsteroidMining ☄️⚒️ has the potential to disrupt global #economic structures by introducing new sources of #minerals and #metals. While the cost of asteroid mining is currently high, long-term economic returns 🤑 could outweigh these if the abundance of resources in asteroids is harnessed effectively and if #SpaceIndustrialization follows, reducing transportation costs. https://spacevoyageventures.com/the-economics-of-asteroid-mining-potential-and-pitfalls/
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#AsteroidMining ☄️⚒️ has the potential to disrupt global #economic structures by introducing new sources of #minerals and #metals. While the cost of asteroid mining is currently high, long-term economic returns 🤑 could outweigh these if the abundance of resources in asteroids is harnessed effectively and if #SpaceIndustrialization follows, reducing transportation costs. https://spacevoyageventures.com/the-economics-of-asteroid-mining-potential-and-pitfalls/
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#AstroForge is tracking several candidate asteroids, each of which is about 400 meters 📏 across. There is no shortage of potential targets. Scientists estimate that there are about 10 million near-Earth #asteroids ☄️, perhaps 3 to 5 percent of these are rich in #metals, so there are potentially hundreds of thousands of candidates for #mining. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/against-all-odds-an-asteroid-mining-company-appears-to-be-making-headway/
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#AstroForge is tracking several candidate asteroids, each of which is about 400 meters 📏 across. There is no shortage of potential targets. Scientists estimate that there are about 10 million near-Earth #asteroids ☄️, perhaps 3 to 5 percent of these are rich in #metals, so there are potentially hundreds of thousands of candidates for #mining. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/against-all-odds-an-asteroid-mining-company-appears-to-be-making-headway/
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Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway - Enlarge / The Odin spacecraft passed vibration testing. (credit: Astro ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2044016 #asteroidmining #science #space
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Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway - Enlarge / The Odin spacecraft passed vibration testing. (credit: Astro ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2044016 #asteroidmining #science #space
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While researching something else, I ran into photos of the Salina Turda salt #mine in Romania. The spectacular Bandenian #salt aside, it just looks amazing.
Can someone please use it as a movie set so I could geek out about to normal people? Anything involving #AsteroidMining would be great - it would drive the mineralogist crazy. -
While researching something else, I ran into photos of the Salina Turda salt #mine in Romania. The spectacular Bandenian #salt aside, it just looks amazing.
Can someone please use it as a movie set so I could geek out about to normal people? Anything involving #AsteroidMining would be great - it would drive the mineralogist crazy. -
And barring Civilisational collapse (always possible) it will happen.
NASA has already sending a probe to the most promising (and perhaps weirdest) rock in the Belt, Psyche.
This world once had volcanoes of pure metal! -
And barring Civilisational collapse (always possible) it will happen.
NASA has already sending a probe to the most promising (and perhaps weirdest) rock in the Belt, Psyche.
This world once had volcanoes of pure metal! -
With Asteroid mining it will be much harder to smuggle child labour on board but Capitalism will try it's best to shoehorn cruelty into it somehow.
We should already be starting a "Belter's Union", workers in Space should get the same protection as back on Earth, prevent Elons from harming Space workers (it's probably his main motivation for mouthing off about Space, being away from Earth laws.) -
With Asteroid mining it will be much harder to smuggle child labour on board but Capitalism will try it's best to shoehorn cruelty into it somehow.
We should already be starting a "Belter's Union", workers in Space should get the same protection as back on Earth, prevent Elons from harming Space workers (it's probably his main motivation for mouthing off about Space, being away from Earth laws.) -
NASA's mission to capture the asteroid 16 Psyche, valued at an astonishing $10 quintillion, is progressing steadily. Launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in October 2023, the spacecraft has been journeying through space at 84,000mph, covering a distance of 2.2 billion miles. Expected to reach its destination in August 2029, the vessel is currently in "full cruise" mode, propelled by electric thrusters towards the asteroid belt.
#NASA #AsteroidMission #16Psyche #SpaceExploration #AsteroidMining #FutureRevenue
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#NASA has contracts with four companies to gather a small amount of material from the lunar 🌙 surface—as a proof of concept to show that extraction is possible.
NASA doesn’t have a similar demonstration for mining ⚒️ #asteroids. But the space rock seekers nevertheless continue their quest for treasure. They believe Earth needs, and will pay handily for, what space 🌌 has to offer. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/in-the-race-for-space-metals-companies-hope-to-cash-in/