Steven Saus [he/him]<p>From 06 Mar: Asteroid Mining Startup Loses Its Spacecraft Somewhere Beyond the Moon - A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in d... <a href="https://gizmodo.com/asteroid-mining-startup-loses-its-spacecraft-somewhere-beyond-the-moon-2000572644" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gizmodo.com/asteroid-mining-st</span><span class="invisible">artup-loses-its-spacecraft-somewhere-beyond-the-moon-2000572644</span></a> <a href="https://faithcollapsing.com/tags/aerospace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aerospace</span></a>-technology <a href="https://faithcollapsing.com/tags/asteroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroid</span></a>-mining <a href="https://faithcollapsing.com/tags/asteroids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroids</span></a> <a href="https://faithcollapsing.com/tags/astroforge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astroforge</span></a> <a href="https://faithcollapsing.com/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a>-&-spaceflight</p>
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Spaceflight 🚀<p>Nearly every ground station 📡 experienced some kind of failure:</p><p>• Wrong configuration<br>• Incorrect pointing coordinates<br>• An unexpected loss of a power amplifier the day before our launch<br>• Interference from a recently built cell tower that, although not in our frequency band, created enough noise to disrupt communications<br>• Insufficient mid-path gain, meaning weak signals were not getting to our radio receiver<br><a href="https://www.astroforge.com/updates/odint-mission-debrief" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">astroforge.com/updates/odint-m</span><span class="invisible">ission-debrief</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Odin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Odin</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceCommunication</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Astroforge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astroforge</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/AsteroidMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsteroidMining</span></a></p>
WinFuture.de<p>Die erste private Asteroiden-Mission steht vor dem Aus: Kontakt zur <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Odin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Odin</span></a>-Sonde abgebrochen. Doch <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a> gibt nicht auf und plant bereits die nächste Mission. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Raumfahrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Raumfahrt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Asteroidenbergbau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asteroidenbergbau</span></a> <a href="https://winfuture.de/news,149303.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">winfuture.de/news,149303.html?</span><span class="invisible">utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia</span></a></p>
WinFuture.de<p>Erste private Asteroidenbergbau-Mission gestartet: Sonde "Odin" untersucht Bergbaupotenzial des Asteroiden 2022 OB5. Neues Kapitel der kommerziellen Weltraumnutzung? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Weltraumbergbau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Weltraumbergbau</span></a> <a href="https://winfuture.de/news,149186.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">winfuture.de/news,149186.html?</span><span class="invisible">utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia</span></a></p>
jackhutton 🇺🇸<p>National parks are underfunded. Firefighters are going into wildfire season understaffed. Food banks are suspending programs.<br>So what are House Republicans doing? Holding a hearing on space mining—an Elon Musk pet project that would make him even richer on the taxpayers’ dime.<br>Source : @nrdems</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/wastefraudandabuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wastefraudandabuse</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/rephuffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rephuffman</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spaceballs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spaceballs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/astroforge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astroforge</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/grifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grifters</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nationalizeSpacex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalizeSpacex</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nrdems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nrdems</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p>“A single one-kilometer-diameter asteroid, if it was platinum-bearing, would contain about 117,000 tons of <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/platinum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platinum</span></a>. That’s about 680 years of global supply. You’re talking about centuries of platinum demand from a single <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/asteroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroid</span></a> ☄️”. <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Odin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Odin</span></a> will arrive in late 📆 2025 after a journey of about 300 days to <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/2022OB5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2022OB5</span></a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/science/astroforge-launch-asteroid-mining.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/02/23/science</span><span class="invisible">/astroforge-launch-asteroid-mining.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/AsteroidMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsteroidMining</span></a></p>
Kchunda<p>Let’s go <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Astroforge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astroforge</span></a> ! <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/asteroidmining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroidmining</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/abundance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abundance</span></a> <a href="https://gizmodo.com/asteroid-mining-is-the-path-to-a-shitload-of-money-astroforge-ceo-says-2000517583" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gizmodo.com/asteroid-mining-is</span><span class="invisible">-the-path-to-a-shitload-of-money-astroforge-ceo-says-2000517583</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a> launches the <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Odin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Odin</span></a> mission in 📆 January 2025. A third attempt is planned for late 2025. The fourth mission will focus on extracting and refining <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/asteroids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroids</span></a>’ metals before returning to Earth <a href="https://www.mining.com/astroforge-secures-first-ever-commercial-license-for-asteroid-mission/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mining.com/astroforge-secures-</span><span class="invisible">first-ever-commercial-license-for-asteroid-mission/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/AsteroidMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsteroidMining</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NEA</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceMining</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a> is tracking several candidate asteroids, each of which is about 400 meters 📏 across. There is no shortage of potential targets. Scientists estimate that there are about 10 million near-Earth <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/asteroids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroids</span></a> ☄️, perhaps 3 to 5 percent of these are rich in <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/metals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metals</span></a>, so there are potentially hundreds of thousands of candidates for <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a>. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/against-all-odds-an-asteroid-mining-company-appears-to-be-making-headway/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/</span><span class="invisible">against-all-odds-an-asteroid-mining-company-appears-to-be-making-headway/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/AsteroidMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsteroidMining</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NEA</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceMining</span></a></p>
Digital Human ✔<p>De toekomst van ruimtemijnbouw: kansen en uitdagingen <a href="https://www.trendingtech.news/trending-news/2024/05/11274/de-toekomst-van-ruimtemijnbouw-kansen-en-uitdagingen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">trendingtech.news/trending-new</span><span class="invisible">s/2024/05/11274/de-toekomst-van-ruimtemijnbouw-kansen-en-uitdagingen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ruimtemijnbouw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ruimtemijnbouw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/platina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platina</span></a> in de ruimte <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/duurzame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>duurzame</span></a> toekomst <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kosmische" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kosmische</span></a> rijkdommen <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trending</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nieuws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nieuws</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a> plans to piggyback on a robotic mission to the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moon</span></a> in 📆 2024 by <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IntuitiveMachines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IntuitiveMachines</span></a>, launched 🚀 * on a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Falcon9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Falcon9</span></a> rocket. <br>During the journey to the moon, the plan is for <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Odin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Odin</span></a> to be released and to venture into <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DeepSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSpace</span></a> beyond lunar orbit. Within a year the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spacecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spacecraft</span></a> will fly past the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/asteroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroid</span></a> ☄️, taking pictures 📷 in the process and looking for evidence of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/metal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metal</span></a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/science/secret-asteroid-mission-astroforge.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/12/27/science</span><span class="invisible">/secret-asteroid-mission-astroforge.html</span></a></p><p>* 📆 Feb 10, 2024 <a href="https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/1915" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nextspaceflight.com/launches/d</span><span class="invisible">etails/1915</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AsteroidMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsteroidMining</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZPy8hH86LY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=HZPy8hH86L</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a> 🗺️ <a href="https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=AstroForge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">graphhopper.com/maps/?point=As</span><span class="invisible">troForge</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AsteroidMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsteroidMining</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p>Early next year, a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> rocket will be launching a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spacecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spacecraft</span></a> to an <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/asteroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroid</span></a> ☄️ that will take about nine months to reach.<br>As the world transitions away from <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> and begins to rely even more heavily on <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electricity</span></a> 🔌, it’s going to need more <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/metals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metals</span></a>. Many of the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/asteroids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroids</span></a> in our <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SolarSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarSystem</span></a> 🌌 are chock full of the metals that are needed for the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/industries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>industries</span></a> of the future, such as <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cobalt</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nickel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nickel</span></a> and <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/platinum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platinum</span></a>-group metals.<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Astroforge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astroforge</span></a> thinks it can support <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> missions with over 80% margins 💰🤑 <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2023/10/18/this-asteroid-mining-startup-is-ready-to-launch-the-first-ever-commercial-deep-space-mission/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/202</span><span class="invisible">3/10/18/this-asteroid-mining-startup-is-ready-to-launch-the-first-ever-commercial-deep-space-mission/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AsteroidMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsteroidMining</span></a></p>
Daniel Fischer<p>Eight months after the launch of their first experimental satellite Brokkr-1 into LEO <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a> has finally published a mission report, and it's a pretty detailled one: <a href="https://www.astroforge.io/updates/2023-update" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">astroforge.io/updates/2023-upd</span><span class="invisible">ate</span></a> - there have been many problems with the small satellite as such but the in-orbit metal refining demo, which is crucial for their business plan of mining asteroids for Platin Group Metals and refining them into super-profitable blocks of metal with the spacecraft still there, can now finally begin.</p>
Daniel Fischer<p>The small <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AsteroidMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsteroidMining</span></a> start-up <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a> is only occasionally sharing details about its <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> missions (the first one launched in April, the next one is waiting for a ride piggybacked on a lunar mission) but in the long interview <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDk7Ybu8nGM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=CDk7Ybu8nG</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a> the CEO just provided *some* fascinating new insights into their near-term plans and grand vision. Fascinating ... and surprisingly full of F words, so you may not want to play it loud in an office environment or with children present. ;-)</p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p>📆 2023 <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Brokkr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brokkr</span></a>-2 will go on a mission to scout <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DeepSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSpace</span></a> and visit one of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a>’s target <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/asteroids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroids</span></a> ☄️, which has not yet been made public. <br>What’s changed in the past decade is an emerging economy of companies offering <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/launch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>launch</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/orbital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orbital</span></a> and other <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/InSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InSpace</span></a> services. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/01/24/commercial-asteroid-mining-now-has-a-2023-launch-date-to-scout-its-first-target" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023</span><span class="invisible">/01/24/commercial-asteroid-mining-now-has-a-2023-launch-date-to-scout-its-first-target</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AsteroidMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsteroidMining</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SpaceCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceCompany</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p>The <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Psyche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psyche</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spacecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spacecraft</span></a> travels using <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SolarElectric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarElectric</span></a> (low-thrust) <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/propulsion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propulsion</span></a>. Solar ☀️ electric propulsion uses electricity from solar arrays to create electromagnetic fields to accelerate and expel charged atoms ⚛️ (<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ions</span></a>) of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/xenon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xenon</span></a> to create a very low thrust with a very efficient use of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/propellant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propellant</span></a> ⛽. This will be the first use of a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/HallEffectThruster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HallEffectThruster</span></a> beyond lunar orbit. <br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Launch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Launch</span></a> period 📆 October 5-25, 2023 <a href="https://psyche.asu.edu/mission/launch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">psyche.asu.edu/mission/launch</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Propulsion : <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_(spacecraft)#Propulsion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_(</span><span class="invisible">spacecraft)#Propulsion</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Forbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Forbes</span></a> "Psyche could contain a core of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/iron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iron</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nickel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nickel</span></a> and <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gold</span></a> worth $10,000 <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/quadrillion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quadrillion</span></a>" <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/10/29/nasa-will-launch-psyche-mission-to-explore-asteroid-worth-more-than-the-global-economy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereu</span><span class="invisible">rope/2022/10/29/nasa-will-launch-psyche-mission-to-explore-asteroid-worth-more-than-the-global-economy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AsteroidMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsteroidMining</span></a> : "let’s say Psyche ☄️were pulverized and carried to <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Earth</span></a> 🌎. For precisely that reason, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/prices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prices</span></a> of iron and nickel would drop close to zero. I interviewed Matthew Gialich, the chief executive officer and a co-founder of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a>. They’re going for <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/platinum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platinum</span></a>, which sells for a little under $1,000 an ounce, and related <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/metals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metals</span></a>, such as <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/palladium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palladium</span></a>." <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/opinion/psyche-asteroid-nasa-mining.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/02/08/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/psyche-asteroid-nasa-mining.html</span></a></p>
Daniel Fischer<p>ICYMI, the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/asteroidmining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroidmining</span></a> start-up <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AstroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroForge</span></a> is preparing the first private mission to an <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/asteroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroid</span></a>, called <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Brokkr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brokkr</span></a>-2 - and categorically refuses to disclose which one has already been selected as the primary target, something unheard of in 60 years of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/interplanetary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interplanetary</span></a> travel: <a href="https://www.astroforge.io/updates/two-steps-closer-to-mining-in-deep-space-announcing-two-astroforge-missions-for-2023" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">astroforge.io/updates/two-step</span><span class="invisible">s-closer-to-mining-in-deep-space-announcing-two-astroforge-missions-for-2023</span></a> and <a href="https://www.intuitivemachines.com/post/intuitive-machines-announces-agreement-to-deliver-astroforge-asteroid-mining-payload-to-deep-space" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">intuitivemachines.com/post/int</span><span class="invisible">uitive-machines-announces-agreement-to-deliver-astroforge-asteroid-mining-payload-to-deep-space</span></a> as well as <a href="https://spacenews.com/asteroid-mining-startup-astroforge-to-launch-first-missions-this-year-2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spacenews.com/asteroid-mining-</span><span class="invisible">startup-astroforge-to-launch-first-missions-this-year-2/</span></a> discussing the asteroid secrecy.</p>
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