#SpaceMining ⚒️ #robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3zRvl2LYJ4
#spacemining
This #robotic system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOq20bisc0g holds the potential to dig up to 10,000 kg in a single lunar day. This is a huge increase 📈 from previous missions that only collected tens of kilograms https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/nasas-powerful-moon-mining-robot-could-dig-10000-kg-of-soil-in-a-single-lunar-day
US Company to Extract Helium-3 on Moon for Sale on Earth.
#Helium3 #LunarResources #Spaceexploration #spacemining #UScompanies
https://blazetrends.com/us-company-to-extract-helium-3-on-moon-for-sale-on-earth/?fsp_sid=28439
The potential for space #biomining and the principles of a reactor to advance human industry and mining ⚒️ beyond Earth : #Microorganisms 🦠 are employed to mine economically important elements from rocks, including the #RareEarth elements. #Bacteria and #fungi 🍄 can be effective in bioleaching in environments with circumneutral or alkaline pH https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19276-w
A colossal impact 💥 during #Mars’ late accretion could explain the unusual amount of #rare metallic elements in Mars’ mantle https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/rare-metals-on-mars-and-earth-implicate-colossal-impacts
#Perseverance could detect traces of #yttrium, an element that, on Earth, is even rarer than #cerium https://artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/perseverance-rover-hunts-rare-earth-elements-mars ⚒️
"How do we anticipate and prevent astrocidal harm while law, science, and morality haven't caught up yet". Yarin Eski, a researcher @vuamsterdam is doing really interesting work on space law/criminology. Although it is on LinkedIn I thought I'd share his post here.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yarin-eski-%F0%9F%9F%A5-08949321_astrocide-april-thats-how-ill-describe-activity-7323270078148317184-zUYa
"We are witnessing today a new era in the conquest of space. Space-faring nations are once again rushing to the Moon, as exemplified by the US and China with their Artemis and Chang’e programmes. Yet states’ quasi-monopoly over space exploration is increasingly challenged by the private sector. Since 2020, SpaceX operates human flights for NASA, marking the first time humans have been launched into space via private commercial spacecraft rather than state ones. Silicon Valley billionaires dream of colonising space and terraforming planets to turn humanity into an “interplanetary species”. With Goldman Sachs’ assurance that space mining is now “more realistic than perceived”, space mining start-ups like the British Asteroid Mining Corporation and the US AstroForge multiply plans to mine asteroids. Huge sums are at play: Bank of America estimates that the space industry could be worth 1.4 trillion dollars by 2030.
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According to the current international legal framework that governs human activities in space, outer space and its precious resources have been consecrated as one of humanity’s commons, along with the deep sea and Antarctica. Space venture capitalists have battled against this status that de facto limits the expansion of the private sector into space. They have found precious institutional and ideological supports in their crusade to introduce private ownership over space resources and lands. Today, they are about to succeed in their effort to dismantle and privatise one of the last remaining commons of humanity.
Why should the left fight to protect the common ownership status of space? This scene-setting report goes back to the New Space lobby’s attack on international space legislation to open a larger debate on how space can be developed in ways that guarantee shared prosperity and the flourishing of all people and future generations."
#Commons #Space #SpaceExploration #SpaceMining #Privatization
Very interesting online event about space expansionism and law, 2nd April. Organized by Edinburgh Law School.
"Space expansionism embodied by space mining companies and planned space colonization dominate the space agenda. It is an inherently exploitative agenda that could have totally annihilative consequences in the future [...]" See
https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events/cjs-seminar-yarin-eski for more details
#astrocide #SpaceMining #SpaceColonization #SpaceCriminology #space @vuamsterdam #law
"This potential treasure hunt in space has sparked discussions about ownership laws, space ethics, and environmental implications. As these celestial bodies could herald an era where space becomes a frontier for industry and sustainable energy, they invoke questions about the regulation of extraterrestrial resource claims."
https://www.scimag.news/news-en/130047/asteroids-to-power-the-future-space-mining-revolution-begins/
#Space #SpaceMining #SpaceLaw #SpaceEthics #SpaceEnvironment #SpaceEnvironmentalism #SpaceSustainability
ispace's plan to colonize the Moon 2040. Very interesting indeed
#ispace #japan #JapanSpaceEconomy #spacemining #moon #LunarEconomy #Moon2040
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
Very interesting agreement between Japanese aerospace company ispace and Magna Petra to extract.and bring back to Earth significant amounts of Helium-3.
#ispace #MagnaPetra #cislunareconomy #lunareconomy #moon #aerospace #spacemining
https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=6537
Navigating the legal landscape of space mining: interpreting international space law
First #lunar power plant ⚡ and electrical grid will recharge #Lunar Terrain Vehicles (LTV)/rovers, provide shore power for landers, and enable the first long-term habitation. A larger 📈 system will likely arrive after 📆 2030, with industrial-scale lunar mining shortly after that https://denvergazette.com/news/mines-students-nasa/article_f9dde656-962c-11ef-9745-e3f8e7b0426e.html https://denvergazette.com/news/mines-students-nasa/article_f9dde656-962c-11ef-9745-e3f8e7b0426e.html
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/
#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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