Asteroid Mining Corporation

Founded
Country
2016
UK
Funding
$1M
Website
Asteroid Mining Corporation
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Asteroid Mining Corporation

Product/Service - Asteroid Prospecting Satellite, SCAR-E

Classification
Space Resources
Category
Resources - Asteroid Mining
Space Mining
Fields
Prospecting
Mining
Database
Status
Early stage
First launch
2026

We are currently developing a satellite to prospect the near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) for mining candidates. AMC will commercialise this data set in order to fund further development of the Asteroid Mining industry, using the revenues from the Space Resource Database to refocus our R&D on the extraction, processing and utilisation of the available extra-terrestrial materials.

In May 2022, Asteroid Mining Corporation's Walking Robots Take First Steps Towards Resource Independence

Space Capable Asteroid Robotic Explorers

Our team is currently working in partnership with the Space Robotics Lab at Tohoku University, Japan, developing SCAR-E. These low-cost, ruggedised, walking and climbing robots will be capable of undertaking asteroid, planetary and lunar exploration, alongside mining operations.

Designed to withstand exposure to radiation, high accelerations experienced during space launch, and extreme temperatures, SCAR-E will be capable of in-orbit asset maintenance such as spacewalking and extravehicular activity.

These unique features will also enable them to function in hostile environments here on Earth, primarily in the fields of nuclear decommissioning, critical infrastructure inspection, mine clearance, and search & rescue operations.

UK’s Asteroid Mining Corp. unveils SCAR-E robot, SpaceNews, 2023-10-13.

Asteroid Prospecting Satellite I

AMC is on track to launch APS-1, a microsatellite space telescope, into sun-synchronous Low Earth Orbit in 2025. 
APS-1 will remain operational for a minimum of five years, scanning several thousand Near Earth and Main Belt Asteroids to estimate their compositions. The data harvested by APS-1 will fill our Space Resources Database, the first comprehensive inventory of our Solar System. 

Asteroid Exploration Probe I

AEP-1 is set to orbit and land on the successful candidates identified by our database. It will explore the surfaces of these asteroids, take samples, and select sites suitable for our subsequent mining probes.

Alchemist-1

A materials-processing satellite.

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