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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"asteroid mining"”.
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Asteroid Mining and the Market for Platinum, a speculative analysis
The potential existence of a high-volume asteroid-derived platinum supply is examined from an economic perspective to assess the possible impact on long-term platinum supply. It is hypothesized that space-mined resources will increasingly become available over the next 30 years to 2050, driven by …
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Using the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem to Design an Earth-Moon Orbit Architecture for Asteroid Mining
… that facilitates these resources through the mining cycle. In this thesis, it is proposed to use the Circular Restricted 3-Body Problem (CR3BP) to design an orbit architecture composed of L3 Lyapunov orbits, hyperbolic invariant stable and unstable manifolds, and geosynchronous (GEO) orbits. A …
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From research to resource piloting near-Earth asteroids Through the Valley of Death
Can the resources of near-Earth asteroids be profitably mined? Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) contain water, which can serve as a fuel in space, and platinum group metals, which are valuable on Earth. The presence of these resources has prompted high valuations of the near-Earth asteroid population, …
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The Asteroid Miners: Space Mining and Resource Making in the Commercial Space Era
In 2019, 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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Spacecraft trajectory tracking and parameter estimation in the presence of a splitting contact binary asteroid
Increasing interest in asteroid mining and in-situ resource utilization will lead to an increase in asteroid surface operations. The composition of asteroids is often unknown and potentially unstable, many of which are bound together predominantly by gravitational forces. Surface operations such as …
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Rendezvous approach guidance for uncooperative tumbling satellites
… satellite servicing, space debris removal, asteroid mining, and on-orbit assembly. This thesis develops a guidance algorithm within the framework of on-orbit satellite servicing, but is extendable to other mission scenarios. The author tests the algorithm in an RPO simulation with an …