Jul 6, 2024 · Two of the biggest issues with asteroid mining is the issue of actually getting materials from the the asteroid in question back to earth, and the relative abundance of resources on earth vs in spa...

Jul 30, 2024 · A small team of astronauts are sent to setup a mining operation on an asteroid. They are specifically equipped for mining and refining one very specific mineral. This mineral is common, …

Jan 8, 2020 · How would one go about mining an asteroid in a broad sense? This question not in the mining itself, but location of the mining. Say you have located an asteroid in that would like to mine. …

Asteroid mining is entirely possible - you just have to be very patient for things going back and forth over astronomical distances under budgetary restraints (not spending a lot for faster movement).

Apr 6, 2022 · Ease of extraction does not include getting to the asteroid or transferring materials back to earth. Don't worry about how to get to the asteroid. Don't worry about getting materials back to earth. …

Mar 26, 2018 · Asteroid mining would be expensive, but the materials brought back would be worth it. Find a big enough asteroid and you can get tons of ore like iron, gold, platinum etc.

Mar 3, 2021 · A flourishing asteroid mining industry would provide a major incentive to push humanity towards the Elevator (s), and 200-300 years of advances in material sciences should be able to …

Dec 18, 2020 · The problem is there are regular launches from the NEO while mining the asteroid. This means the asteroid gets an equal impulse in the opposite direction. It's mass may be billions of times …

Sep 27, 2019 · 14 I see that asteroid mining had already been extensively discussed in the context of today's technology (Ex. Is Asteroid Harvesting economic?) and the answer is a definitive "No" - it's …

Apr 10, 2017 · The amount of waste would be probably lower than by Earth-bound mining, and part of it could get blasted away at speeds exceeding the (pretty low) escape velocity of the asteroid, but …