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AstroForge's ultimate goal in the field of asteroid mining is the extraction, refinement, and sale of platinum-group metals (PGMs) located within M-type asteroids near to Earth. These asteroids are expected to be quite small in comparison to main belt asteroids, being anywhere from around 20 to 300 meters in diameter.
Moon Express (MoonEx; vehicle model prefix: MX) is an American privately held company formed in 2010 by a group of Silicon Valley and space entrepreneurs. It had the goal of winning the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, and of ultimately mining the Moon for natural resources of economic value.
Biconic Space Vehicle LEO: New Glenn: Planned date not known Development Boeing: CST-100 Starliner: LEO: Multiple, initially Atlas V: 7 [16] 5.03 [17] 4.56 [17] 13,000 Solar panels Crewed: 5 June 2024 (Uncrewed: 20 December 2019) Operational Sierra Space: Dream Chaser Space System: LEO: Multiple, initially Vulcan Centaur: 7 [18] 9 [19] 11,300 ...
Astra Space, Inc., formerly known as Ventions, LLC from 2005 - 2016, is an American space company based in Alameda, California, with facilities in Sunnyvale, California and Atwater, California. The company was initially an aerospace technology research firm that focused on SBIR contracts, developing small rocket engines for use on launch ...
Electric propellant pumps for launch vehicles and spacecraft Comat: Flourens, France Space Equipment mechanism expert, from design to MAIT (Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration, Test). SmallSat off-the-shelf solutions including ADCS (reaction wheels range), SADM, deployable structure and electric propulsion (Plasma Jet Pack)
Space Launch Complex 9 (SLC-9) is a planned launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States.Currently a greenfield, it is leased to Blue Origin as part of their plans to have a Western Range site for their New Glenn launch vehicle, joining Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral. [1]
The space treaties cover many major issues such as arms control, non-appropriation of space, freedom of exploration, liability for damages, safety and rescue of astronauts and spacecraft, prevention of harmful interference with space activities and the environment, notification and registration of space activities, and the settlement of disputes.
ABL Space Systems is an American aerospace and launch service provider, based in El Segundo, California, that manufactures deployable launch vehicles and infrastructure for missile defense, [1] formerly for sending commercial small satellites into orbit. The company manufactures its components in the United States.