Asteroid Mining
A reason for Asteroid mining
Environmental impacts of mining, resource depletion, increasing demand for metals.
What does Astroforge focus on?
Extracting valuable metals from asteroids
The proposed launch date of Astroforge’s third mission, Vestri, that is meant to be the first-ever spacecraft to actually land on an asteroid.
What is 2025?
Asteroids are remnants from this
Solar system formation
Holds an estimated value of $700
What is the asteroid belt
Astroforge has three missions, but they have only launched…
One
The year the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, that allowed companies to extract & sell resources from asteroids, was released.
What is 2015
One of the categories of Asteroids
C-type, S-type, M-type
Top 2 metals found in asteroids
Iron and Nickel
Who is one of the founders of Astroforge
Jose Acain or Matt Gialich
Odin, Astroforge’s second mission, is meant to orbit a near-Earth asteroid to collect imagery for future mining missions. It was originally set to take off _____, but has been pushed back to _____.
What is later this year? & What is January of 2025?
Used to identify what asteroids are made of
what is telescopic spectroscopy