[SpaceProgram] MIT Tech review: Planetary Resources -- a New Asteroid Mining Operation?

[cole santos]

That number radically alters depending on lift price and in-situ
resource utilization for fuel and lodging.

Inflatable mold nickel boron CVD has the potential to dominate mining
in space because it is in either a gas or liquid states during
processing which allows preexisting pumping and equipment for mining.
A inflatable module with a airlock could be used to extract the nickel
with CO under relatively benign temperatures and pressures.

But yea i was definitely stoked to hear about this. Stratolaunch
Systems + Planetary Resources + Bigelow + Ad Astra Rocket Company = An
Interesting Decade

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Huei Ming Tan <tanhueiming at gmail.com> wrote:
> Whoa, chill.
>
> I share your excitement, but the political economy of space exploration has
> always been pegged in the order of tens or several hundred billion dollars.
> We still need to make a lot of things pay off for itself at vastly cheaper
> cost!
>
> Sent from Samsung tablet.
>
> On Apr 20, 2012 3:34 AM, "cole santos" <cksantos85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> OMG, we are now witnessing the beginning of the next era of
>> colonization. China just put the first post office into orbit....
>> Everyone is going for the moon. Chang Diaz has a NERVA rocket. Many in
>> the industry want us to formally colonize the moon. The space treaty
>> will be toast in 10 years. Obama is building asteroid ships. Now this
>> asteroid mining. These guys need a huge nickel carbonyl process plant.
>> One asteroid could build several giant habitats. Inflate a giant
>> rubber sphere with tiny ss heating elements in the surface and fill it
>> with nickel carbonyl and boron. Nickel boron deposits and you have a
>> giant metallic habitat with properties close to steel. That is how we
>> will build O'Neil sized habitats on the cheap. Giant heated rubber
>> molds. Nickel carbonyl can be produced by passing carbon monoxide over
>> crushed asteroid material. Iron can also be removed by this process.
>> Left overs are rare earths.....The first asteroid chunks could be sold
>> as is to NASA, ESA, ect for research. Unless they go carbonaceous
>> first and sell fuel and water to LEO.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Máté Ravasz <ravaszmeister at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Don't forget that apart from techgurus, Peter Diamandis (CEO or founder
>> > of
>> > at least a dozen space firms), Tom Jones (not that one but still an
>> > astronaut), And a few veteran NASA guys are also in there. Sounds fun!
>> >
>> >
>> > On 19 April 2012 11:13, Jerry Isdale <isdale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> "On Tuesday, a new company called Planetary Resources will announce its
>> >> existence at the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery at The Museum of Flight
>> >> in
>> >> Seattle. It's not clear what the firm does, but its roster of backers
>> >> incudes Google cofounders Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, filmmaker James
>> >> Cameron, former Microsoftie (and space philanthropist) Charles Simonyi,
>> >> and
>> >> Ross Perot Jr., son of the former presidential candidate."
>> >>
>> >> http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27776/?ref=rss
>> >>
>> >> Hmm, maybe these folks will drop a small ($1mil) donation to help
>> >> ensure a
>> >> well trained workforce
>> >>
>> >> Jerry Isdale
>> >> isdale at gmail.com
>> >>
>> >>
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