A recent academic paper models the economic impact of asteroid mining on platinum group metals.

Science fiction authors have been dreaming of robotic spacecraft harvesting fortunes from asteroids for decades. Humanity is slowly getting closer to that reality. But if you ask asteroid mining skeptics, they will usually ask one specific question - what happens to the prices of all those rare materials once someone actually brings them back? A pair of system dynamicists from MIT directly tackled that question with a new paper titled Will AstroForge Collapse the PGM Market? Platinum Group Metals, or PGMs, are absolutely critical to modern industry. Two of the most commonly used are platinum and palladium, which are critical components in everything from automotive catalytic converters (hence when there’s a raft of people stealing them) to hydrogen fuel cells. However, these materials are exceptionally hard to come by - on Earth at least. More than 80% of the known planetary reserves are locked in deep-shaft mines located in South Africa and Russia. Their absurd prices (tens of millions of dollars a ton) are based at least in part on how difficult they are to extract. Even at the Russian and South African mines, they are only able to glean a few grams of material per ton of rock. In...

Science fiction authors have been dreaming of robotic spacecraft harvesting fortunes from asteroids for decades. Humanity is slowly getting closer to that reality. But if you ask asteroid mining skeptics, they will usually ask one specific question - what happens to the prices of all those rare materials once someone actually brings them back? A pair of system dynamicists from MIT directly tackled that question with a new paper titled Will AstroForge Collapse the PGM Market?

Antena de 15 metros em Santa Maria vai estar envolvida através da prestação de serviços de telemetria rastreamento e comando da missão DeepSpace-2 da norte-americana.

Space mining company AstroForge plans to fly a spacecraft next year that will test its ability to operate fully autonomously using artificial intelligence.

Plenty of AI boosters will give the technology control over their inbox. Few are as bold as space-mining company AstroForge, which...

AstroForge plans to launch the first-ever totally autonomous space mission in 2027, potentially paving the way for a new era of exploration.

지구에서 수십만 킬로미터 떨어진 우주선에 문제가 생기면 어떻게 될까요? NASA 같은 기관은 수백 명의 관제사가 교대로 붙지만, 스타트업에게는 불가능한 일입니다. 소행성 채굴 기업 아스트로포지(AstroForge)는 이 문제를 정면으로 돌파하기로 했습니다. 우주선 AI 자율 제어

AstroForge plans to launch the first-ever totally autonomous space mission in 2027, potentially paving the way for a new era of exploration.

En 2027, une startup va tenter une opération inédite : envoyer un vaisseau dans l'espace et laisser une IA prendre toutes les décisions, sans aucune possibilité d'intervention humaine. C'est la mission Autonomy-1 d'AstroForge.

En 2027, une startup va tenter une opération inédite : envoyer un vaisseau dans l'espace et laisser une IA prendre toutes les décisions, sans aucune possibilité d'intervention humaine. C'est la missio

AstroForge plans to launch the first-ever totally autonomous space mission in 2027, potentially paving the way for a new era of exploration.