Company - Asteroid Enterprises
Product/Service
- Classification
- Miscellaneous
- Category
- Consulting Service
- Fields
- Asteroids
- Status
- Active
- First launch
- Not announced
The Near-Earth Asteroids
- Plentiful targets (24,000 now found, more all the time..)
- Highly accessible (20% are energetically ‘closer’ than Moon)
- Good knowledge base from meteorites & astronomy
- Richness of resources, c.f. the Moon (average grade ~ 10%)
- Apparent ease of handling and processing loose regolith
- Ease of return to market orbits
- Returns can be low thrust thus low power
- Precursor missions already flown
Notes
Website is offline as of early 2024.
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