DocumentCode
631304
Title
Space mining
Author
Can, Nazli
Author_Institution
Istanbul Tech. Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
fYear
2013
fDate
12-14 June 2013
Firstpage
1005
Lastpage
1007
Abstract
Recently some private companies have unveiled their plans to launch a fleet of spacecraft to hunt for small asteroids and mine them. This would include mining of gold and platinum. According to an article published at popularmechanics.com for instance the asteroid 1986 DA is a metallic asteroid made up of iron, nickel, gold and platinum what values range between $6 and $7 trillion [1]. Therefore the legal aspects of space mining shall become very important soon.
Keywords
asteroids; mining; space vehicles; Au; Fe; Ni; Pt; asteroid 1986 DA; gold mining; metallic asteroid; platinum mining; space mining; spacecraft; Moon; Proposals;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST), 2013 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Istanbul
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-6395-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/RAST.2013.6581361
Filename
6581361
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