Quote from: tigerade on 04/18/2012 02:50 amThere has been too much over-promise and under-deliver.Too much smoke and too few flames.I don't care much for the hype, I would just like to see something in orbit at some point.Umm.. there's plenty in orbit.. the problem is that you're biased to looking at promises instead of results. The people who have delivered to orbit so far are doing it quietly.
There has been too much over-promise and under-deliver.Too much smoke and too few flames.I don't care much for the hype, I would just like to see something in orbit at some point.
Lot's of wild speculation here. My guess is that we'll see at least six pages filled with speculation before we hit the press-conference on the 24th.It's up to you folks to prove me wrong
Here's one paper that backs up this guess of having something to do with asteroid exploitation (coauthored by Arkyd Astronautics):Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility StudyApril 2, 2012 <---notice the date... just two weeks ago!http://kiss.caltech.edu/study/asteroid/asteroid_final_report.pdf"This report describes the results of a study sponsored by the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) to investigate the feasibility of identifying, robotically capturing, and returning an entire Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) to the vicinity of the Earth by the middle of the next decade. "Another note is the idea of capturing a temporary moon, which may be even easier than this idea of capturing a 500,000kg NEA in orbit around the Sun.
Quote from: Robotbeat on 04/18/2012 05:07 amHere's one paper that backs up this guess of having something to do with asteroid exploitation (coauthored by Arkyd Astronautics):Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility StudyApril 2, 2012 <---notice the date... just two weeks ago!http://kiss.caltech.edu/study/asteroid/asteroid_final_report.pdf"This report describes the results of a study sponsored by the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) to investigate the feasibility of identifying, robotically capturing, and returning an entire Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) to the vicinity of the Earth by the middle of the next decade. "Another note is the idea of capturing a temporary moon, which may be even easier than this idea of capturing a 500,000kg NEA in orbit around the Sun.No one on the planet could afford the liability insurance premiums for pointing an asteroid in the direction of Earth.
Quote from: Danderman on 04/18/2012 04:19 pmQuote from: Robotbeat on 04/18/2012 05:07 amHere's one paper that backs up this guess of having something to do with asteroid exploitation (coauthored by Arkyd Astronautics):Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility StudyApril 2, 2012 <---notice the date... just two weeks ago!http://kiss.caltech.edu/study/asteroid/asteroid_final_report.pdf"This report describes the results of a study sponsored by the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) to investigate the feasibility of identifying, robotically capturing, and returning an entire Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) to the vicinity of the Earth by the middle of the next decade. "Another note is the idea of capturing a temporary moon, which may be even easier than this idea of capturing a 500,000kg NEA in orbit around the Sun.No one on the planet could afford the liability insurance premiums for pointing an asteroid in the direction of Earth.You didn't read the paper, did you?
Quote from: Robotbeat on 04/18/2012 04:22 pmQuote from: Danderman on 04/18/2012 04:19 pmQuote from: Robotbeat on 04/18/2012 05:07 amHere's one paper that backs up this guess of having something to do with asteroid exploitation (coauthored by Arkyd Astronautics):Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility StudyApril 2, 2012 <---notice the date... just two weeks ago!http://kiss.caltech.edu/study/asteroid/asteroid_final_report.pdf"This report describes the results of a study sponsored by the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) to investigate the feasibility of identifying, robotically capturing, and returning an entire Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) to the vicinity of the Earth by the middle of the next decade. "Another note is the idea of capturing a temporary moon, which may be even easier than this idea of capturing a 500,000kg NEA in orbit around the Sun.No one on the planet could afford the liability insurance premiums for pointing an asteroid in the direction of Earth.You didn't read the paper, did you?Nope. I was responding to an earlier post in this thread about the announcement being about a commercial recovery of an asteroid.
First .. Hello to the Forum .. My first post. A little updatehttp://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27776/Its not Arkyd Astronautics but Planetary Resources Inc. that will be announced. http://www.planetaryresources.com/ Nothing on their page right now other than the 24th April date.
(Also, it's worth noting the scale involved... a 500 ton asteroid is only the mass of the ISS and wouldn't be in an orbit that could decay to Earth like ISS or any other LEO satellite. Are we going to forbid Bigelow from building a space station for the same reason?)If we followed similar logic in air travel, you wouldn't be able to fly a jet over a city.
Too much smoke and too few flames.
Wow, the steady stream of new (not necessarily "New Space") space companies just doesn't stop. Interesting that there are so many stealth-mode companies out there... It can only be a good thing, IMHO.
My first post.
Assuming that a company could somehow return a cubic meter of platinum ore from space to the Earth, the value of that cubic meter would be somewhere in the tens of millions of dollars. The good news is that the mass launched to the asteroid doesn't have to be that great, once some sort of robotic system were in place, as all that would be required would be to send a container to the asteroid, plus return prop. That would require a lot of propellant or some sort of electric drive. ......
Quote from: Chalmer on 04/18/2012 05:35 pmFirst .. Hello to the Forum .. My first post. A little updatehttp://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27776/Its not Arkyd Astronautics but Planetary Resources Inc. that will be announced. http://www.planetaryresources.com/ Nothing on their page right now other than the 24th April date.Wow. Thank you for the info, and welcome to the forum!I trust you're allowed to share the name? No sense in causing yourself trouble after all.
