Space News

02.10.2013

Asteroid Mining

• 10 m platinum asteroid - $670 billion• 10% 10m nickel asteroid - $8.1 million• Metallic asteroids have far richer metal, including precious

metal veins than on earth• Majority of asteroids of varieties with bound water (air,

hydration, shielding, fuel)• Smallest known M asteroid has metallic content worth >

$30 trillion. • Side industries of earth sensing from space

– Cheap plentiful telescopes– Also decrease risk of being surprised by a planetary impact.

Deep Space Industries

Planets everywhere

• One in six stars have earth sized planets– Billions more roam interstellar space

• Over 100 billion planets in galaxy• Red dwarf stars have small planets in habital

zone– Some within ~10 light years of earth

• Ground and space based telescopes can characterized exo-planet atmosphere by 2020

Resolving exo-planet atmosphere

Electric Solar Sail Tethers Produced

Mach Effect Thruster Experiment

Bigelow get $17 billion NASA contract