Mastodawn

Extracting lunar water ice 🧊 profitably requires deploying at least 20 tons of mining equipment to the surface. Even with #SpaceX’s #Starship potentially dropping costs to $10 million per ton, you’re looking at $200 million just for equipment delivery.
The future of lunar mining ⚒️ : remote operators control trucks, #AI optimizes drill patterns. #Robotic systems handle materials in environments humans rarely enter https://spacenews.com/the-lunar-mining-gold-rush-is-coming-and-success-requires-bridging-two-worlds

#SpaceMining #ISRU

The lunar mining gold rush is coming – and success requires bridging two worlds

Traditional mining expertise plus space startup innovation will equal the winning formula for lunar resource extraction.

SpaceNews

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Welkin Oct 12

@licho #Spaceindustrialization, #SpaceMining and #SpaceColonization are worthy goals. Whether #StarLink will help in it, is an open question. The same can be said too for competitors of #StarLink, like #ProjectKuiper or #OneWeb and others.
#space, #colonization, #spacex.

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Spaceflight 🚀Sep 28

The #European 🇪🇺 Commission's Vision for the European #SpaceEconomy includes #SpaceMining ⚒️ and in-space resource use https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/vision-european-space-economy_en

#ISRU #ESA #EUSPA #Europe

Vision for the European Space Economy

Vision for the European Space Economy: Positioning the EU as a leader in space

Defence Industry and Space

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Spaceflight 🚀Sep 26

We haven’t #mined ⚒️ on the moon yet, but companies are already buying its resources. Bluefors has purchased tens of thousands of liters of #Helium3 from the moon — spending “above $300 million” 💰💰💰 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/16/moon-mining-helium-quantum-computing

#SpaceMining

Moon helium deal is biggest purchase of natural resources from space

The feasibility of moon mining is not yet proven, but the future of supercomputing may depend on the ability to extract Helium-3 from the lunar surface.

The Washington Post

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Spaceflight 🚀Sep 26

Researchers say the #Moon 🌙 craters could be home to trillions of dollars worth of precious #metals and could be mined instead of sending probes to #asteroids ☄️ https://www.independent.co.uk/space/moon-craters-platinum-asteroid-mining-b2834248.html

#SpaceMining #AsteroidMining

Moon craters could be mined for platinum from asteroids, scientists say

It may be more advantageous to mine asteroids that have impacted Moon rather than ones in orbit, study says

The Independent

MKSchmidt Aug 16

Whenever I finish a new game (in this case Cyclopean: The Great Abyss) I always seem to circle back to Star Explorers. I guess it's my baby.

Anyway, space mining tractor beams are fun!
#ScreenshotSaturday #Retrogaming #SpaceMining

IT Insights Jul 18

💥 Mars-steen verkocht voor 5 miljoen! 🚀 De ruimte-economie is booming. Ontdek de toekomst van space mining en economische kansen. #RuimteEconomie #SpaceMining
https://itinsights.nl/het-laatste-it-nieuws/mars-steen-voor-5-miljoen-de-ruimte-economie-ontploft/

Mars-steen voor 5 miljoen? De ruimte-economie ontploft!

IT Insights De data die verkregen wordt uit het analyseren van meteorieten zoals de Tissint, is niet alleen relevant voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek, maar ook voor de toekomst van grondstoffenwinning.

IT INSIGHTS

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