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Old October 27th 18, 03:58 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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New asteroid mining company announces plans to conquer space rocks
by Jonathan O'Callaghan, 22 January 2013
Deep Space Industries has unveiled plans for a new robotic exploration
fleet.


Deep Space Industries announced today that it will send a fleet of
asteroid-prospecting spacecraft out into the solar system to hunt for
resources to accelerate space development to benefit Earth. These
“FireFly” spacecraft will utilize low-cost CubeSat components and get
discounted delivery to space by ride-sharing on the launch of larger
communications satellites.

Deep Space Industries is the second company, after Planetary Resources
in 2012, to announce such a mission. “Using low cost technologies, and
combining the legacy of our space program with the innovation of today’s
young high tech geniuses, we will do things that would have been
impossible just a few years ago,” said Deep Space Chairman Rick Tumlinson

The FireFlies have a mass of about 55 lb (25 kg) and the first will be
launched in 2015 on journeys of two to six months. Deep Space will be
building a small fleet of the spacecraft using innovative miniature
technologies, and working with NASA and other companies and groups to
identify targets of opportunity.

“My smartphone has more computing power than they had on the Apollo Moon
missions,” said Tumlinson. “We can make amazing machines smaller,
cheaper, and faster than ever before. Imagine a production line of
FireFlies, cocked and loaded and ready to fly out to examine any object
that gets near the Earth.”

Starting in 2016, Deep Space will begin launching 70-lb DragonFlies for
round-trip visits that bring back samples. The DragonFly expeditions
will take two to four years, depending on the target, and will return 60
to 150 lb. Deep Space believes that combining science, prospecting and
sponsorship will be a win/win for everyone, both lowering costs for
exploration and enabling the public to join the adventure.

Bringing back asteroid materials is only a step on the way to much
bigger things for DSI. The company has a patent-pending technology
called the MicroGravity Foundry to transform raw asteroid material into
complex metal parts. The MicroGravity Foundry is a 3D printer that uses
lasers to draw patterns in a nickel-charged gas medium, causing the
nickel to be deposited in precise patterns.

Senior leaders at NASA have been briefed on DSI’s technologies, which
would make eventual crewed Mars expeditions less expensive through the
use of asteroid-derived propellant. Missions would require fewer
launches if the fuel to reach Mars were added in space from the
volatiles in asteroids. Mars missions also would be safer with a
MicroGravity Foundry on board to print replacements for broken parts, or
to create brand new parts invented after the expedition was on its way
to the Red Planet.

“Using resources harvested in space is the only way to afford permanent
space development,” said Gump. “More than 900 new asteroids that pass
near Earth are discovered every year. They can be like the Iron Range of
Minnesota was for the Detroit car industry last century — a key resource
located near where it was needed. In this case, metals and fuel from
asteroids can expand the in-space industries of this century. That is
our strategy.”

For example, a large market for DSI is producing fuel for communications
satellites. Low-cost asteroid propellant delivered in orbit to comsats
will extend their working lifetimes, with each extra month worth $5
million to $8 million per satellite. DSI has executed a non-disclosure
agreement with an aerospace company to discuss collaboration on this
opportunity.

In a decade, Deep Space will be harvesting asteroids for metals and
other building materials, to construct large communications platforms to
replace communications satellites, and later solar power stations to
beam carbon-free energy to consumers on Earth. As DSI refines asteroids
for in-space markets, it also will harvest platinum group metals for
terrestrial uses, such as pollution control devices.

Asteroids that fall to Earth are meteorites, and the Deep Space team
includes Geoffrey Notkin, star of the international hit television
series Meteorite Men (and who contributed to All About Space issue 1)
about hunting for them. Notkin has unparalleled expertise in the
diversity and market value of these elusive rocks, which are transformed
by intense heat during their plunge to the surface. By contrast, the
initial asteroid samples to be brought back by Deep Space will have
their original in-space composition and structure preserved, creating
exceedingly rare specimens for sale to the research and collectors markets.

“We will only be visitors in space until we learn how to live off the
land there,” concluded Tumlinson. “This is the Deep Space mission — to
find, harvest and process the resources of space to help save our
civilization and support the expansion of humanity beyond the Earth —
and doing so in a step by step manner that leverages off our space
legacy to create an amazing and hopeful future for humanity. We are
squarely focused on giving new generations the opportunity to change not
only this world, but all the worlds of tomorrow. Sounds like fun,
doesn’t it?”

Tags: asteroid hunters, Asteroid Mining, deep space industries,
Planetary Resources
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Old October 27th 18, 04:32 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default New asteroid mining company announces plans to conquer space rocks

On Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 8:59:58 AM UTC-6, a425couple wrote:
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****ing 'patents' are like Satanic Wall Street contracts. Need to out law them all. in space too.

Corpo greed.
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Old October 28th 18, 10:49 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default New asteroid mining company announces plans to conquer spacerocks

a425couple wrote on 28/10/2018 1:58 AM:
from
https://www.spaceanswers.com/news/ne...r-space-rocks/


New asteroid mining company announces plans to conquer space rocks
by Jonathan O'Callaghan, 22 January 2013
Deep Space Industries has unveiled plans for a new robotic exploration
fleet.


Snip

Interesting artical, published in 2013. Anything heard since??

--
Daniel
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Old October 28th 18, 02:09 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default New asteroid mining company announces plans to conquer spacerocks

On 10/27/2018 8:32 AM, Arc Michael wrote:
On Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 8:59:58 AM UTC-6, a425couple wrote:
from
https://www.spaceanswers.com/news/ne...any-announces-


****ing 'patents' are like Satanic Wall Street contracts. Need to out law them all. in space too.

Corpo greed.

Well, although I do not like legal fights, protecting inventors
intellectual rights (so they do get rewarded, and keep producing
more improvements) is a very important and valid goal.
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Old October 28th 18, 02:14 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default New asteroid mining company announces plans to conquer spacerocks

On 10/28/2018 2:49 AM, Daniel60 wrote:
a425couple wrote on 28/10/2018 1:58 AM:
from
https://www.spaceanswers.com/news/ne...r-space-rocks/


New asteroid mining company announces plans to conquer space rocks
by Jonathan O'Callaghan, 22 January 2013
Deep Space Industries has unveiled plans for a new robotic exploration
fleet.


Snip

Interesting artical, published in 2013. Anything heard since??

Yes. Sorry.
I'm not sure how that all came into view, and I did not notice the date.

Plenty of new things keep developing.
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Old October 28th 18, 03:25 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default New asteroid mining company announces plans to conquer space rocks

And just how are any asteroid mining operations going to ever occur ?

It took something about the size of the statue of liberty, just to get
a man to step on our moon.

Suggest nobody hold their breath !
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Old October 28th 18, 06:53 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default New asteroid mining company announces plans to conquer spacerocks

Le 27/10/2018 * 17:32, Arc Michael a écrit*:
On Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 8:59:58 AM UTC-6, a425couple wrote:
from
https://www.spaceanswers.com/news/ne...any-announces-



****ing 'patents' are like Satanic Wall Street contracts. Need to out law them all. in space too.

Corpo greed.


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