Elon Musk's Starship blew up again — and our prospects of mining the moon hang in the balance
Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just ...
Asteroid Mining Startup Loses Its Spacecraft Somewhere Beyond the Moon
A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.
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A tiny spacecraft is poised to launch on an unprecedented deep-space mission. The CEO behind it is ‘terrified’
His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious metals ...
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Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O ...
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First-Ever Asteroid Mining Mission Loses Contact With Earth
California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious ...
Gold Mining Unleashes a Carbon Time Bomb in the Amazon
Gold mining in Peru’s Amazon is now destroying carbon-storing peatlands at an alarming rate. In just two years, over half of ...
Official calls for cautious approach in deep-sea mining regulations
Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon has done more damage to peatlands in the last two years than in the previous three decades
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon has done more damage to peatlands in the last two years than in the previous three decades ...
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Water mining on the moon may be easier than expected, India's Chandrayaan-3 lander finds
Higher latitudes on the moon with slopes facing the poles "are not only scientifically interesting but also pose less ...
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A tiny spacecraft is poised to launch on an unprecedented deep-space mission. The CEO behind it is ‘terrified’
There are plenty of upsides to the pursuit of asteroid mining, said Paul Stimers, an attorney and space policy expert with Holland & Knight. There are, however, some key questions hanging over the ...