SPACE MINING

奥萨马 , MUHAMMAD OSAMA

Why Mining?

 Minerals are the lifeblood of the

worlds Economy from
The Artic circle to the Sahara desert.
 The 1.7 trillion dollar Mining Industry
supply raw materials needed for
everything from Skyscrapers to
mobile phones.
 A thriving industry to last forever!.

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 Why Space
Mining?

 Mining Industry produces huge amounts of

envoirnmental pollution.
 To comply with envoirnmental Laws companies spent
millions of dollars of special machinery just to prevent
envoirnmental pollution.
 Asteriods,Moons and the planets in our solar system
hold unlimited and untapped resources.
 An Asteriod close to eart called “Davida” is worth
100 Trillion dollars!
 Proposed Astroid by NASA is “99942 Apophis”

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 Why Space
Mining?
 Based on known terrestrial reserves, and growing
consumption in both developed and developing
countries, key elements needed for modern industry
and food production could be exhausted on Earth within
50 to 60 yearsTo comply with envoirnmental Laws
companies spent millions of dollars of special machinery
just to prevent envoirnmental pollution.
 Plantenum , Cobalt phosphorus, antimony, zinc, tin,
lead, indium, silver, gold and other precious material can
be used to build Solar Powered Sattlelites, Space
Habitats and Propellant depots
 “Water is like gold in deep space,” says James Mantovani
of Kennedy Space Center’s Granular Mechanics and
Regolith Operations Lab
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 Space-
based solar
power
 Space-based solar power (SBSP) is the concept of collecting
solar power in outer space and distributing it to Earth.
Potential advantages of collecting solar energy in space
include a higher collection rate and a longer collection period
due to the lack of a diffusing atmosphere, and the possibility
of placing a solar collector in an orbiting location where there
is no night.To comply with envoirnmental Laws companies
spent millions of dollars of special machinery just to prevent
envoirnmental pollution.
 In 2008, Japan passed its Basic Space Law which established
Space Solar Power as a national goal
 In 2015, the China Academy for Space Technology (CAST)
showcased their roadmap at the International Space
Development Conference. In May 2020 the US Naval Research
Laboratory conducted its first test of solar power generation in
a satellite

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Adavantages of Spaced Based Solar Power
The SBSP concept is attractive because space has several major advantages over the Earth's surface for the
collection of solar power:
 It is always solar noon in space and full sun.
 Collecting surfaces could receive much more intense sunlight, owing to the lack of obstructions such as
atmospheric gasses, clouds, dust and other weather events. Consequently, the intensity in orbit is
approximately 144% of the maximum attainable intensity on Earth's surface.[citation needed]
 A satellite could be illuminated over 99% of the time, and be in Earth's shadow a maximum of only 72
minutes per night at the spring and fall equinoxes at local midnight.[39] Orbiting satellites can be exposed
to a consistently high degree of solar radiation, generally for 24 hours per day, whereas earth surface solar
panels currently collect power for an average of 29% of the day.[40]
 Power could be relatively quickly redirected directly to areas that need it most. A collecting satellite could
possibly direct power on demand to different surface locations based on geographical baseload or peak
load power needs.
 Reduced plant and wildlife interference

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 Propellant
depot
 An orbital propellant depot is a cache of propellant that is
placed in orbit around Earth or another body to allow
spacecraft or the transfer stage of the spacecraft to be
fueled in space. It is one of the types of space resource
depots that have been proposed for enabling infrastructure-
based space exploration
 Satellite servicing depots would extend the lifetime of
satellites that have nearly consumed all of their orbital
maneuvering fuel
 The Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Working Group, a
consortium of participants from NASA, industry and
academia, discussed propellant depot concepts and plans on
several occasions in 2010
 The Chinese Space Agency (CNSA) performed its first
satellite-to-satellite on-orbit refueling test in June 2016.

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Adavantages of Propellant Depot

 Because a large portion of a rocket is propellant at time of launch, proponents point out several advantages of using a
propellant depot architecture. Spacecraft could be launched unfueled and thus require less structural mass
 If used in conjunction with a mining facility on the moon, water or propellant could be exported back to the depot,
further reducing the cost of propellant
 An exploration program based on a depot architecture could be cheaper and more capable, not needing a specific
rocket or a heavy lift such as the SLS to support multiple destinations such as the Moon, Lagrange points, asteroids,
and Mars
 Reduced critical path mission complexity.
 Launch every few months rather than once every 12–18 months
 Tens of billions of dollars of cost savings to fit the budget profile

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 The Concept?

4) The Concept
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 TECH REQUIREMENTS

INNOVATION SATELLITE PROBES TRANSPORT LINK

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 IN-SETU
Resource
Utilization
(ISRU)
 To remove the factor of bringing minerals to earth we should use
the resources from Space in Space.
 Minerals to produce Zero-Immision fuel such as Hydrogen fuel
used in Spacecraft propulsion system can be recreated in space.
 NASA Artemis program to Harvest water in Moon.
 China,US,Europe and India are all looking for ways to mine water in
Moon already to create a fueling station on Moon.
 According to NASA, "in-situ resource utilisation will enable the
affordable establishment of extraterrestrial exploration and
operations by minimizing the materials carried from Earth.“
 The lunar Resource Prospector rover was designed to scout for
resources on a polar region of the Moon, and it was proposed to be
launched in 2022

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Why ISRU and How
does it link to other
projects?
 To

 Most important resources that could be mined from Moon and Asteroids is perhaps the
most common, Water. Water can be and is used as Rocket Propellant by NASA space
launch programs. Water molecules can be electrolyzed to break the bounds and create
Oxygen and Hydrogen. Both the Oxygen and Hydrogen are cooled (cryogenically).Oxygen
is used in space stations as life source for humans in space and Hydrogen as fuel.
 Hydrogen Fueled vehicles already exists on Earth already and Hydrogen as Fuel is nothing
new
 This process require a lot of energy. That is why NASA has planned to first launch Solar
powered satellites to extract immense amounts of solar energy and then launch ISRU
projects so that they can be used to make Hydrogen Fuel on space. This fuel would than
sent to Propellant Depots to fuel other Sattlites and rockets. If you have been focusing on
this presentation you would see that they are all linked!.

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SpaceX Mars Program

 SpaceX Mars program is a development program initiated by Elon

Musk and SpaceX in order to facilitate the eventual colonization
of Mars. The program includes fully reusable launch vehicles,
human-rated spacecraft, on-orbit propellant tankers, rapid-
turnaround launch/landing mounts, and local production of
rocket fuel on Mars via in situ resource utilization (ISRU). SpaceX's
aspirational goal since 2017 has been to land the first humans on
Mars by 2024
 Colonizing Mars is not done “Just for fun” but the main reason
behind is energy sector.If SpaceX along with NASA are successful
with this mission they have easy supply of propellant fuels for
sattletites and rocktes for longer space exploration missions.
 US Government has already created its “Space Force”.And this
Space Force has already designed sattlelites that would launch
projectiles from space to destination selected.

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Optical Mining of Asteroids

 In 2014 the NASA Advisory Council published a report

highlighting the main issue for space exploration missions was
the budget to launch spacecrafts to space.To overcome this NASA
sponsored many Universities to innovate ideas for “Optical
Mining” on nearby Astroids/Moon with water content in them.
 Water, oxygen, propellant, and shielding can be made in space
from resources known to be plentifully available in asteroids and
probably in the Martian moon Deimos. Optical Mining technology
is a breakthrough approach to harvesting these materials from
asteroids, boulders, and regolith in microgravity. In Optical
Mining, excavating and processing asteroid materials is
accomplished by highly concentrated sunlight which we have
shown can be used to drill holes, excavate, disrupt, and shape an
asteroid while the asteroid is enclosed in a containment bag.
 By Optical Mining NASA could save $10B/yr or $150B over the 15
year operational life cycle of a human exploration program

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TransAstra Project by
Colorado School of Mines PAGE 16
Mini Bee Prototype to Demonstrate the
Apis Mission Architecture and Optical
Mining Technology

 Apis is a breakthrough mission and flight system architecture

designed to revolutionize NASA’s human exploration of deep
space and to enable massive space industrialization and human
settlement. Apis is enabled by Public Private Partnership (PPP)
and a series of inventions including the Optical Mining method
of asteroid resource harvesting, the Omnivore solar thermal
thruster, and a spacecraft architecture that uses highly
concentrated sunlight as a far lighter, less expensive, and
higher performing alternative to electric power in space.
Mission and business analysis funded by a combination of
private, NIAC, Emerging Space, and SBIR sources projects
>$300B in savings for NASA HEOMD while enabling affordable
cislunar tourism and space industries.

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TransAstra Project in Debt PAGE 18
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 Reference
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Solar Power Satellites. Washington, D.C.: Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment. August 1981. p. 66. LCCN 81600129

Collection at Earth's poles can take place for 24 hours per day, but there are very small loads demanded at the pole

"MHI Successfully Completes Ground Demonstration Testing of Wireless Power Transmission Technology for SSPS“

"In-Situ Resource Utilization". NASA Ames Research Center. Retrieved 14 January 2007.

This Is How SpaceX Will Explore Mars and Beyond Archived 2016-10-22 at the Wayback Machine

 Andrew Chaikin. "Is SpaceX Changing the Rocket Equation?

Optical Mining of Asteroids, Moons, and Planets to Enable Sustainable Human Exploration and Space Industrialization by Joel Sercel
(TransAstra Corp)

Mini Bee Prototype to Demonstrate the Apis Mission Architecture and Optical Mining Technology by Joel Sercel(TransAstra Corporation)

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2019/ip_3.html

Detailed Livestreamed videos definitely worth the watch for future ideas and innovation in space
https://livestream.com/viewnow/niac2018

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