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Economic significance of platinum group elements and water in asteroids: Insights from chondritic meteorites
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Asteroids are considered to be rich sources of precious metals, water, and essential volatiles for life. Such a consideration has been derived from the study of meteorites and asteroid reflectance spectra which have both been vital to our understanding of asteroid compositions. The vast amount of...
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2022-08-01
Kim, Kristina, Carlson, JD, Cue, Maverick
The business plan for the Khepri Project is to use the water mined from Bennu and convert it into fuel, then sell it at an orbital gas station. After the research was conducted, it appears that this project is financially feasible and realistic while considering a number of assumptions due to the...
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2022-08-01
Groh, Aaron, Miklaucic, Brieanna
Much like outer space, our legal system consists of many unknowns. This is especially true for new developments in emerging technologies, particularly those related to the exploration, exploitation, and utilization of space resources. The recently developed technical feasibility of space mining...
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2022-08-01
Boyala, Gowtham, Gremm, Adam, Gungor, Ahmet, Taghipour, Amirhossein, Biella, Massimo, Qiu, Jiawei Jackson, Raj, Athip Thirupathi, Chhabra, Arjun, Gee, Adam, Maharaj, Saanjali, Richardson, Erin, Empey, Julia, Abdul-Nabi, Haidar Ali, Frost, Erika, Talukder, Ariyaan, Richards, Lindsay
Water has been identified as a critical resource for development of robust cis-lunar infrastructure. Providing a potential source of clean-energy propellant and/or an essential consumable for humans or agriculture on crewed trips to the Moon or Mars while avoiding high costs of launching from...