📆 2023 #Brokkr-2 will go on a mission to scout #DeepSpace and visit one of #AstroForge’s target #asteroids ☄️, which has not yet been made public.
What’s changed in the past decade is an emerging economy of companies offering #launch, #orbital and other #InSpace services. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/01/24/commercial-asteroid-mining-now-has-a-2023-launch-date-to-scout-its-first-target

#AsteroidMining #SpaceCompany

The #Psyche #spacecraft travels using #SolarElectric (low-thrust) #propulsion. Solar ☀️ electric propulsion uses electricity from solar arrays to create electromagnetic fields to accelerate and expel charged atoms ⚛️ (#ions) of #xenon to create a very low thrust with a very efficient use of #propellant ⛽. This will be the first use of a #HallEffectThruster beyond lunar orbit.
#Launch period 📆 October 5-25, 2023 https://psyche.asu.edu/mission/launch

Propulsion : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_(spacecraft)#Propulsion

#Forbes "Psyche could contain a core of #iron, #nickel and #gold worth $10,000 #quadrillion" https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/10/29/nasa-will-launch-psyche-mission-to-explore-asteroid-worth-more-than-the-global-economy

#NYT #AsteroidMining : "let’s say Psyche ☄️were pulverized and carried to #Earth 🌎. For precisely that reason, #prices of iron and nickel would drop close to zero. I interviewed Matthew Gialich, the chief executive officer and a co-founder of #AstroForge. They’re going for #platinum, which sells for a little under $1,000 an ounce, and related #metals, such as #palladium." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/opinion/psyche-asteroid-nasa-mining.html

The #Psyche #spacecraft travels using #SolarElectric (low-thrust) #propulsion. Solar ☀️ electric propulsion uses electricity from solar arrays to create electromagnetic fields to accelerate and expel charged atoms ⚛️ (#ions) of #xenon to create a very low thrust with a very efficient use of #propellant ⛽. This will be the first use of a #HallEffectThruster beyond lunar orbit.
#Launch period 📆 October 5-25, 2023 https://psyche.asu.edu/mission/launch

Propulsion : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_(spacecraft)#Propulsion

#AsteroidMining : "let’s say Psyche ☄️were pulverized and carried to #Earth 🌎. Human beings would be richer in one sense, because they would have all the #iron and #nickel they would ever need. But for precisely that reason, #prices of iron and nickel would drop close to zero. I interviewed Matthew Gialich, the chief executive officer and a co-founder of #AstroForge. They’re going for #platinum, which sells for a little under $1,000 an ounce, and related #metals, such as #palladium." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/opinion/psyche-asteroid-nasa-mining.html

ICYMI, the asteroid mining start-up #AstroForge is preparing the first private mission to an #asteroid, called #Brokkr-2 - and categorically refuses to disclose which has already been selected as the primary target, something unheard of in 60 years of interplanetary travel: https://www.astroforge.io/updates/two-steps-closer-to-mining-in-deep-space-announcing-two-astroforge-missions-for-2023 and https://www.intuitivemachines.com/post/intuitive-machines-announces-agreement-to-deliver-astroforge-asteroid-mining-payload-to-deep-space as well as https://spacenews.com/asteroid-mining-startup-astroforge-to-launch-first-missions-this-year-2/ discussing the asteroid secrecy.

#AsteroidMining ⚒️ : The first launch, scheduled for 📆 April 2023, will test #AstroForge’s technique for refining 🔬 #platinum from a sample of asteroid-like material. The second, planned for October, will scout for an #asteroid ☄️ near #Earth to #mine https://www.mining.com/web/asteroid-mining-startup-astroforge-to-launch-first-missions-this-year/