There are many open science questions in space resource utilisation due to the novelty and
relative immaturity of the field. While many potential technologies have been proposed to …

Within the context of anthropogenic climate change, but also considering the Earth's natural
climate variability, this paper explores the speculative possibility of large-scale active control …

Asteroid mining has been proposed as an approach to complement Earth-based supplies of
rare earth metals and to supply resources in space, such as water. However, existing studies …

Asteroid mining has been proposed as an approach to complement Earth-based supplies of
rare earth metals and supplying resources in space, such as water. Existing research on …

Asteroids and comets are of strategic importance for science in an effort to understand the
formation, evolution and composition of the Solar System. Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are of …

A simple formalism is presented to assess how many asteroids contain ore, ie, commercially
profitable material, and not merely a high concentration of a resource. I apply this formalism …

Asteroid mining offers the possibility to revolutionize supply of resources vital for human
civilization. Preliminary analysis suggests that Near-Earth Asteroids (NEA) contain enough …

The list of detected near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is constantly growing. NEAs are likely
targets for resources to support space industrialization, as they may be the least expensive …

Robotic and manned exploration of the Moon is the next target in Solar System exploration.
The availability of in situ resources such as water ice, iron oxides, helium-3, and rare earth …

Twelve years ago the Catalina Sky Survey discovered Earth's first known natural geocentric
object other than the Moon, a few-meter diameter asteroid designated 2006 RH120. Despite …