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The Asteroid Miners: Space Mining and Resource Making in the Commercial Space Era

Mandel, Savannah LannVirginia Tech2025

… two news articles announced that the "asteroid mining bubble had burst." One, written by prolific space industry journalist, Jeff Foust, explained that the question of whether or not the space mining industry had "boomed" or "bubbled" had been answered, as almost all existing space mining …

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Multiple Asteroid Retrieval Mission

Gargioni, GustavoVirginia Tech2020

In this thesis, the possibility of enabling space-mining for the upcoming decade is explored. Making use of recently-proven reusable rockets, we envision a fleet of spacecraft capable of reaching Near-Earth asteroids. To analyze this idea, the goal of this problem is to maximize the asteroid mass …

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A Systems Engineering approach for developing a Mars In Situ Propellant Production System

Martinez Paruta, Rafael E.

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Technologies of mining production: space, discourse, new materialities, and media

Palma Millanao, KarlaUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

… to either sustain or resist the process of mining production in the Chilean Andes. Through the study of the mining company Los Pelambres, I make visible knowledge, skills, and practices that take place in a zone of socio-environmental conflict. In the dissertation, I demonstrate how the …

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