The mission’s asteroid target and mining technique remain under wraps, with AstroForge not wanting to reveal all of its secrets to potential competitors. What we do know is that AstroForge is ...
Mitch is the founder of the Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC). He admits pulling off such a feat is still a fair way off. Not only would it involve landing robots on a rock, but also remotely ...
Neither Odin nor Vestri will conduct any actual asteroid mining, but should they succeed, they will have demonstrated the key stages of reaching an asteroid and getting in position to begin mining.
It’s been a year since the Redmond, Wash.-based asteroid mining venture known as Planetary Resources was acquired by ConsenSys and pivoted to blockchain projects in space — but the idea ...
open image in gallery Image captured by Rover-1B, and provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows the surface of asteroid Ryugu (Jaxa via AP) In 2018, Japan made history by ...
Excitement for asteroid mining has dropped off a bit since it was attracting more investment in the early 2010s, but with NASA and SpaceX forging onward with plans to establish a presence on the ...