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Asteroid mining (or more broadly, space mining) is an inevitable step in humanity's quest for resource production. At some point, we must succeed in collecting resources from asteroids and sending them to our planet or to colonies we establish in space. While this is an unavoidable phase, we know there are still many problems we need to solve to achieve it.

Honestly, I used to think that one of the biggest issues we needed to solve for this was AI. Space is vast and dangerous for human missions, but the developments in AI over the past few years have shown that this might actually be one of the easiest problems to solve. I believe the next breakthrough will come in the field of robotics.

As someone who spends a lot of time working on asteroid mining, I examine all the companies that are ambitious in this field. Each of them has different plans and strategies for extracting minerals from asteroids. My personal opinion is that mining needs to become unmanned on Earth first. A company that will be successful in space mining must first achieve unmanned operations on Earth.

I don't think that space mining will be achieved by companies that claim to suddenly perform a magical feat and start extracting minerals from asteroids. I am curious to hear your thoughts on the near future of space mining under this topic. Anything you share will contribute to this field. Thank you in advance to everyone who takes the time to share their ideas.

I'd like to learn more about where the industry is at and what knowledge is out there concerning asteroid mining.

I am new to this subreddit and I am curious as to what the largest issues with asteroid mining are because most people talk about the issues vaguely (at least for what I've seen) but I am curious as to what technology we need to actually mine asteroids (cost no object)

I'm a lead Devops engineer, and I want to figure out how to help the space race through my profession. Any ideas?

Goal is to contribute to local/hybrid cloud stacks.

Hey Y'all,

Doing some research for investing in Space mining I think it might be a bigger thing in the future so putting my fingers in the Cookie jar now maybe will pay off later, Wanted to discuss with y'all what your collective thoughts on investing in various space mining companies or robotic companies that could be used in space mining, I used the search method to see if anyone has asked this on reddit and didn't find anything,

Id love to hear your thoughts ideas and recommendations to invest.

In CNBC's video they showed in all of their examples of spacing mining humans (or human technology) traveling to the asteroids to mine them their current location and bring the mined materials back, and they explained by this isn't economically viable right now.

However, I always imagined that we would mine asteroids by pushing them much closer to Earth, pushing small asteroids directly to earth to be slashed down in a convenient ocean location, or for large asteroids, having them pushed close enough to earth to lock into orbit like another moon.

Could someone explain to me if any of my ideas are even possible or if I simply don't understand the science well enough?

I just finished Seveneves, what else would you recommend?

im doing a school project on asteroid mining and i am really confused about some topics-

1.1 Location of the project

1.1 Docking and Thrusting

Growth n Economy & Business

these are the topicsit will be very helpful for me if someone can help me with these as i have a few days left to complete it

I'm an undergrad studying mechanical engineering and want to work in asteroid mining or something similar like general ISRU and space infrastructure. What companies are the most promising and would be good to work for in this field?

I'm also looking at grad school. If anyone has advice on where to go that is doing interesting research on the subject, that would be awesome!

Thank you!

I have been playing around with chatGPT asking questions in this regard and two important questions that I asked:

1. How far into the surface would you need to go to experience 1g gravity?
2. What limitations are preventing us from mining deeper into the planet?

For the first question, concerning the Moon and Mars. For the Moon you'd need to go as far as 980 miles into the Moon to get to a point where you'll experience 1G gravity and almost 3000 miles into Mars for the same.

For the second question, it was in regards to Earth and aside from obvious things like heat and pressure there is also the fact you have to contend with driling through hard materials like besalt and granite. Nevermind the cost and complexity of getting the equipment into space in the first place, what advances are being made to even let you go that far and farther?

At the very least I think that when we start settling space we are going to colonize the Moon as a starting point and as a launchpad for other colonies. I also think that when we colonize the belt we will need fuel for ships coming and going from the Belt to the Earth and any colonies in the Belt will need water to support the colonists there. So with all that in mind which planets and moons should be colonized to optimize the efficiency and profitability of the asteroid mining industry?