Operational
Overviews,
Benchmarks
Trying
to fit together all the puzzle pieces known at the time into a grand
picture. This picture continuously changes and is upgraded.
Designing
Near Earth Asteroid Mines
Benchmark 1 for exploring alternatives and further developments
NEAmines group, 15. December 2006
A description of Scouts
and Prospector probes, Infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit,
Infrastructure at the asteroid (digger, processor, extruder/moulder,
insystem material transport and storage, energy, habitat, tugs and
massdrives), operations asteroid-earth-asteroid.
A synthesis of
discussions in the NEAmines group.
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a summary of the history of what has been going on
April-October 2007
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December
2006
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Milestones
"State-of-concept"
of various pieces in the puzzle.
LEOStation Alpha
First Low Earth Orbit
Station as base for Asteroid Mining. An exploration into general
structural issues.
NEAmines Group, March 2008
A "milestone" of the
NEAmines group
Orbital tug in Low Earth Orbit
An exploration into the
challenges, and a first attempt at designing a viable construction
NEAmines Group, Sept. 2007
A "milestone" of the
NEAmines group
Rig for Mining Asteroids
An exploration into the
challenges, and a first attempt at designing a viable construction
NEAmines Group, May 2007
A "milestone" of the
NEAmines group.
Chemical
and physical processes in the
PROCESSOR
Work in progress, Version 28. January 2007
NEAmines group, subgroup "Processors", Jan 2007
PROCESSOR is the generic
name for all the machinery that converts
asteroid material into transportable and tradeable metals and
volatiles. An overview of the processes as discussed so far.
A "milestone" of the
NEAmines group.
The
Asteroid Environment
and what it means for Mechanical Engineering
NEAmines group, 6. December 2006
An overview of what we
know about the physical environment at
asteroids, and what this may mean for design specificiations for the
machinery: Very low gravity, low escape velocity, "floating pile of
rubble", dust.
A "milestone" of the
NEAmines group.
Options
for attaching
Equipment to Asteroids so it can exert Force
MEAmines group, December 2006
A list of options
discussed and their advantages and drawbacks: Stakes,
harness, glue, magnetic, "polyp", "crab"
Milestone of NEAmines
group.
Two
accounts of what we know about asteroid composition,
and what it means
for mining them.
James Brown, Oct 2006, Ueli Scheuermeier Sept 2006
A synthesis of the
hypothetical history of asteroids and how that results in diverse
compositions.
A "milestone" of the
NEAmines group
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