Space Harvester

Monday, 8 April 2019

And all that for the sake of kicking up a bit of dust?

A few teething problems

but no major complications so far

up there on Ryugu.

(Check: Feb. 27, 2019

★ Hayabusa2 status (week of 2019.2.18) ★ )

Issues in Science and Technology

has just published a rather exhaustive article

providing an up-to-date tour d'horizon

on the complex subject of what is often commonly referred to as

"space mining".

German company PTScientists GmbH

(originally known as "Part-Time Scientists")

have just issued their latest press release entitled:

"PTScientists to examine future ESA mission on in-situ resource utilisation on the Moon".

Like Planetary Resources Inc. a few months ago,

Deep Space Industries has now also changed hands;

the company has become part of the Bradford Space group.

DSI's former asteroid mining ambitions

meanwhile seem to have gone into hibernation,
(while China's Chang'e-4 has successfully landed on the far side of the moon!)

Practical details about Bennu and OSIRIS-REx

are available at a glance
on the "asteroidmission.org" website.

Link to: "www.asteroidmission.org/objectives/bennu/"

Essential preliminary information relating to the mission

can be found in the JPL "InSight Landing Press Kit".