Optical Mining technology is a breakthrough approach to harvesting materials from asteroids, boulders, and regolith in microgravity. In Optical Mining, excavating and processing asteroid materials is ...

Apis™ is a breakthrough mission and flight system architecture designed to revolutionize NASA’s human exploration of deep space and to enable massive space industrialization and human settlement.

Despite the recent buzz about eventually mining asteroids for metals, their real near-term value may be as space-based sources of water and carbon dioxide from which to make rocket propellant. The ...

Researchers have explored the development and testing of optical mining techniques for extracting water and volatiles from carbonaceous asteroids, particularly focusing on simulants called Nectar A ...

TransAstra Corporation has laid out a plan to capture entire asteroids using inflatable bags, tow them closer to Earth, and extract water from them using concentrated sunlight. The approach, developed ...

An innovative plan to use “optical mining” is part of the Asteroid Provided In-Situ Supplies (Apis) concept — an ability to tap mega-amounts of water from space rocks to help establish valuable ...

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