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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 8 months ago

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@VRubinObs 🔭 Today, #astronomers are aware of only about 40 percent 📊 of potentially hazardous #asteroids ☄️ - close-flying objects that are large enough to cause continent-wide destruction if they were to impact 💥 Earth. "The idea is, if there is an object like that, we want to find it while it’s maybe 40 or 50 years out, because that gives us enough time to figure out how we’re going to deflect it.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-revolutionary-new-observatory-will-locate-threatening-asteroids-and-millions-of-galaxies-180984514/

#Observatory #Astronomy #AsteroidThreat

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 8 months ago

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Only eight #asteroids ☄️ have ever been detected before impact 💥 with #Earth’s atmosphere. The first of these discoveries took place in 📆 2008, and four were detected in just the last two years https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/Asteroid_2024_BX1_spotted_three_hours_before_impact

#Asteroid danger explained : "The main challenge stems from the population of middle-size objects, ranging from tens to hundreds of metres in diameter. There are a lot of these asteroids, and most have not been spotted yet." https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/06/Asteroid_danger_explained

#ESA #AsteroidThreat

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 2 weeks ago

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"The bad news is #NASA estimates that it tracks only about 40 percent 📊 of the #asteroids ☄️ #large enough that they could cause calamity if they were to hit 💥 #Earth" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/24/nasa-asteroid-telescope

#ESA : #Asteroid danger explained https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/06/Asteroid_danger_explained

#AsteroidThreat

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 2 weeks ago

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The 20-inch diameter #telescope 🔭 will carry out a five-year baseline survey to find at least two-thirds of the unknown #NEOs ☄️ larger than 140 meters 📏. It will launch around 📆 September 2027 to detect and observe #asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact 💥 threat to Earth https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/spacex-nasa-rocket-asteroid

#AsteroidThreat #NASA #Astronomy

NASA @nasa@social.beachcom.org · last month

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NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-asteroid-bennu-sample-reveals-mix-of-lifes-ingredients/#NASA #OSIRISRExOriginsSpectralInterpretationResourceIdentificationSecurityRegolithExplorer #Asteroids #Bennu #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #ScienceMissionDirectorate

Daniel Fischer @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz · 2 months ago

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Observations and Quantitative Compositional Analysis of Ceres, Pallas, and Hygiea Using JWST/NIRSpec: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad944c -> "We present JWST Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) measurements of the three largest low-albedo main-belt #asteroids: (1) Ceres, (2) Pallas, and (10) Hygiea. Their reflectance spectra all have very similar absorptions centered near 2.72 μm attributed to Mg–OH in minerals."

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 6 months ago

#AstroForge 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 #asteroids ☄️, perhaps 3 to 5 percent of these are rich in #metals, so there are potentially hundreds of thousands of candidates for #mining. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/against-all-odds-an-asteroid-mining-company-appears-to-be-making-headway/

#AsteroidMining #NEA #SpaceMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 6 months ago

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📆 2016 thesis : It was found that a future space mission to harvest #asteroids ☄️ seems prosperous and even plausible in the near future if using a cost-effective mission architecture, perhaps even within a decade. The necessary knowledge increases quickly due to interests of profit and exploration and #space is among the fastest growing 📈 businesses today https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lup/publication/8882371

• Remote Sensing Techniques
• Space Shuttles & Technology
• Targeting Asteroids
• Financial Feasibility
• Conclusions

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 4 months ago

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#AstroForge launches the #Odin mission in 📆 January 2025. A third attempt is planned for late 2025. The fourth mission will focus on extracting and refining #asteroids’ metals before returning to Earth https://www.mining.com/astroforge-secures-first-ever-commercial-license-for-asteroid-mission/

#AsteroidMining #NEA #SpaceMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 6 months ago

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#AsteroidMining #NEA #SpaceMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 4 months ago

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One of two metallic #asteroids floating in Earth's vicinity could boast more #iron, #nickel and #cobalt than the entirety of our #global 🌏 metal reserves. https://www.cnet.com/science/rare-asteroids-near-earth-may-become-targets-for-space-mining/

#AsteroidMining #NEA #SpaceMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 2 months ago

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Recent missions to rendezvous with and to orbit and land on #asteroids ☄️ have demonstrated that #SpaceMining could be just a matter of time ⏱️ https://phys.org/news/2024-10-asteroid-potential-trillion-dollar-industry.html

#AsteroidMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

Launch costs have fallen 95% 📉 (with another massive reduction expected in the coming years) thanks to reuse, improved engineering, and increased volumes.
“In economics, we assume that resources are limited; land is limited; natural resources are limited. With #space 🌌, it allows us to change that.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/03/were-in-a-new-era-the-21st-century-space-race-takes-off

#LaunchCost #SpaceMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

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#NASA has contracts with four companies to gather a small amount of material from the lunar 🌙 surface—as a proof of concept to show that extraction is possible.
NASA doesn’t have a similar demonstration for mining ⚒️ #asteroids. But the space rock seekers nevertheless continue their quest for treasure. They believe Earth needs, and will pay handily for, what space 🌌 has to offer. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/in-the-race-for-space-metals-companies-hope-to-cash-in/

#AsteroidMining #MoonMining #SpaceMining