##In-Situ Resource Utilization and other asteroid utilization program

[NirViaje]

Issue by derekoutis Monday Oct 29, 2018 at 18:45 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/derekoutis/ExponentialDeepSpace/issues/19

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Asteroid utilization program survey

• MadeInSpace
  • Project RAMA | Project+RAMA+NIAC+Phase+I+Final+Report.pdf
  • ArchiNaut
• Trans Astronautica
  • Asteroid ISRU Concepts, Missions, and Technologies In Development, Joel C. Sercel, TransAsra/Caltech/NIAC
  • APIS: Asteroid Provided In-situ Supplies, Joel C. Sercel, TransAsra/Caltech/NIAC
• Honeybee Robotics
• How Asteroid Mining Could Work, Planetary Resources, 2013 (Infographic)
• University of Central Florida
  • Seminar Series: The Science and Technology of Near-Earth Asteroid Sample Return
  • Economic Pathways to Space Mining, Philip Metzger, UCF

ISRU

• NASA
  • https://isru.nasa.gov/
  • In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU): A Graduate Seminar, 2017
  • Advanced Automation for Space Missions, NASA Conference Publication 2255, 1982
  • NIAC studies on self-replicating systems/Bootstrapping Self-Replicating Factories in Space

• ISRUinfo, the Space Resources Roundtable
• Reports
  • Asteroid Mining: A Review of Methods and Aspects, Vide Hellgren, Lund University, 2016
  • Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study, 2012, Keck Inst.
  • SpaceFab.us, exponential growth in manufacturing
  • Asteroid mining with small spacecraft and its economic feasibility, Fr, UK, Aug 2018
  • In-Situ Resource Utilization, NASA

Other related project

• http://www.lakematthew.com/

Investment

• Luxembourg
  • Luxembourg inside
  • Building a Space Development Industry in Luxembourg-Lamboray
  • SpaceResources // Luxembourg
  • Luxembourg €100m fund | Silicon Valley of asteroid mining
  • Law
• SpaceAngels, Chad Anderson, since 2007, USA

[NirViaje]

Comment by derekoutis Monday Oct 29, 2018 at 18:46 GMT

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Community

• NIAC
• NSS | Space Settlement Summit
• L2 – THE PREMIER SPACE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE
• Luxembourg Space Cluster

[NirViaje]

Comment by derekoutis Monday Oct 29, 2018 at 18:46 GMT

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@astroprop proposed coin mining for economic utilization of the power supply in space.

[NirViaje]

Comment by derekoutis Monday Oct 29, 2018 at 18:46 GMT

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Slogans

• TransAstra: Opening the solar system to humanity
• DSI: Opening Deep Space for business; Advanced spacecraft technology propelling the world’s first private missions to deep space.
• Aten Engineering: Mapping the resources of near earth space, for good;
• Planetary Resources: Providing Resources to Fuel Industry and Sustain Life in Space

[NirViaje]

Comment by derekoutis Monday Oct 29, 2018 at 18:46 GMT

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Advanced Automation for Space Missions, NASA Conference Publication 2255, 1982