space - Asteroid mining: Good for the environment?
2020年4月19日 · To perform asteroid mining, you would need many technologies to be developed, perhaps the following: a large amount of automation in production: Efficiencies can probably be found in production of complex parts which could transfer to other industries (automotive, shipping or computing industries) increasing efficiency
Is Asteroid Mining safe? - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
This would also be the case for asteroid mining, increasing the risk. Another occupation that is more dangerous is space exploration, with roughly 7.5% of all astronauts having died in accidents. Since asteroid miners would also be astronauts, this would also increase their risk.
Will asteroid mining be economical in foreseeable future?
2019年9月27日 · As mentioned in the other related thread, anything you can find out there in the solar system you can also find right here on earth, and generally in vastly greater abundance and ease of retrieval, if you're comparing to the difficulties involved in getting to an asteroid and mining ore off it in a vacuum suit millions of miles from anywhere.
internal consistency - Asteroid mining and Newton's 3rd law ...
2020年12月18日 · The problem is there are regular launches from the NEO while mining the asteroid. This means the asteroid gets an equal impulse in the opposite direction. It's mass may be billions of times bigger than the cargo but it is reducing as it gets mined and over years of exploitation and launches the orbit is going to be altered.
science based - Could asteroid mining be made viable if there …
2024年7月6日 · This means not every asteroid is guaranteed to be of "pure metals" or precious metals even. It is more likely there are traces of everything or something inside it, but also likely not localized on one spot but distributed across the whole asteroid. Making mining those traces cost-efficiently nigh to impossible.
Asteroid Mining as an Economy? - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
2015年5月26日 · Asteroid mining looks good for the Moon. A single Saturn V style F-1 engine can introduce delta-v of about 7km/sec change to near-Earth asteroid of 1000 tons (about ten meters across) if supplied with 40% of the Saturn V first stage fuel and firing for about 5 minutes.
science based - Would asteroid mining be worth the trouble ...
2018年3月26日 · The value of asteroid mining is the materials already in space. Getting materials off Earth currently costs around $25K a kilo. If the material is already in space, you can build spaceships, space stations, satellites probes, etc without the cost of the fuel to get it into orbit.
space - What issues would an AI asteroid mining stations have to …
The purpose of this AI is to control a mining station that will be anchored within an asteroid belt. The space station will be equipped with refining and construction facilities, docking bays for transport ships, and rudimentary defense capabilities.
Logistics of how to mine an asteroid - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
2020年1月8日 · Asteroid mining is economical -- economic basis is reduction of materials on earth Asteroid mining is based on objects a far away as Mars Technological hurdles: Fusion drives are in use, there is an independent colony on the moon, issues such as low gravity's effects on the human body have been resolved
What happens to asteroids when heated into a plasma?
2017年8月14日 · Since the composition of the asteroid is likely to be a mixture of materials, and the ejection of a stream of gas or plasma is going to cause the asteroid to move, a few more steps need to be taken. Firstly, the asteroid should be encased in a foil "pouch" to capture any out streaming gasses, water vapour etc. which are also valuable resources.