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  • zhunk@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    There’s just no way space mining makes money with current tech.

    AstroForge thinks they can make asteroid mining work with existing technology. Their CEO did a podcast with Payload a few weeks ago (link, but it’s also on Spotify and elsewhere).

    They have a demo sat testing their forge and will launch a 2nd sat later this year to do an asteroid flyby. They think they can launch 20+ satellites on a Falcon 9 that could each return $100 million in platinum to the Earth.