Sentences with phrase «resources on asteroids»

Eric Anderson, co-founder and co-chairman of Planetary Resources Inc., said in a statement, «This key technology for determining resources on asteroids can also be applied towards monitoring and managing high - value resources on our home planet.

In December, Planetary Resources will launch the Arkyd 6, which will provide the first demonstration of the sensing technology that the company plans to use to detect resources on asteroids.

Not exact matches

Planetary Resources, a Redmond, Washington - based company founded by Peter Diamandis and commercial spaceflight pioneer Eric C. Anderson, is currently working on its own asteroid mining technology.

Landing on an asteroid and mining it for resources might sound far out, but NASA is very serious about it.

(Other startups, like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, are trying to achieve similar ends by landing on asteroids.)

For Planetary Resources, the first wave of development is to culminate in a doughnut - shape spacecraft heading on a prospecting mission to a near - Earth asteroid in 2020.

«It relies greatly on assumptions on various factors, in particular the probability that the asteroid is resource - rich.»

«For all of our history in exploring space, we've brought everything we will ever need on the journey,» Lewicki says, but harnessing the abundant resources on near - Earth asteroids would «enable the creation of infrastructure and industries [in space] not dependent on continual shipments from Earth.»

«There are only so many resources [on Earth] to go around, and we have to stop using them,» says Lewicki, who has two NASA Exceptional Achievement Medals and an asteroid named in his honor.

Living up to all the ambitions of its official name, OSIRIS - REx would explore the origins of asteroids and thus the solar system itself, connect spectral colors observable from Earth to specific minerals on the asteroid, identify potential resources such as water for rocket fuel, help evaluate the threat of asteroids to Earth, and return some regolith (asteroid soil) for detailed analysis.

It really made me feel like they just want to spend money on design and fabricate some test vehicles but not launch them because # 1 it to expensive and # 2 they really don't know where to go or than an asteroid mission because Planetary Resources really doesn't want to spend their own money on R&D... Considering the events in the Ukraine and Iran... The world may end before the SLS / Orion goes anywhere other LEO or maybe just maybe to the Moon!!!

The purpose of the workshops is to educate teachers on the content of comets, asteroids, the EPOXI and Stardust - NExT and Dawn mission encounters and the educational resources appropriate for classroom use.

So while yes, a nuclear bomb could be used to blow up a small asteroid, it's unlikely that world leaders would waste expensive resources on that endeavor.

When Planetary Resources actually begins sending its first robotic prospectors to asteroids, the company will concentrate on space rocks that are relatively close to Earth, rather than heading out into the more distant Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.

And, «Developing nuclear - powered space shuttles will «support large - scale exploration and development of space resources, and make mining on asteroids and space solar power plants possible,» Xinhua quoted the report as saying, without adding further details.»

«Orbital robotics and AI techniques in general can enable future spacecraft to repair satellites, remove space junk, extract resources from asteroids and comets, and so on,» said study co-author Yang Gao, a space roboticist at the University of Surrey in England.

The fight for these scarce resources has divided Earth's population into three main factions: the Cowbots, who live by mining asteroids and cultivating moisture from the land; the Scrappers, who prey on the Cowbots and pillage their communities for supplies; and the Royalists, who live unaffected by steam shortages and impose their superiority over the Cowbots.

New features include asteroid belts on the map that can be mined for resources, unique planets that require special technologies to colonize, spies to conduct sabotage and destabilization (or used to protect your worlds from the same), new types of diplomatic treaties, an enhanced artificial intelligence engine, and much more!

Would you consider an effort to work together, to combine resources to deflect the asteroid, «a top down global control over the use of energy and the lives of everyone on earth» that you would oppose with every fiber of your being?

And if the asteroids don't get us, there's always the melting polar ice caps, loss of animal life, dwindling physical resources, and other grim scenarios that we seem hell - bent on achieving.