AstroForge (Asteroid Mining Company)

[JohnFornaro]

Ah, so they have a way to break apart and haul asteroid chunks around the solar system? Someone tell the Planetary Society that AstroForge solved the whole asteroid protection thing.

Bingo.  The asteroid baggers do not really have a proposed technique to despin a huge asteroid with a tiny spacecraft.

[Asteroza]

Ah, so they have a way to break apart and haul asteroid chunks around the solar system? Someone tell the Planetary Society that AstroForge solved the whole asteroid protection thing.

Bingo.  The asteroid baggers do not really have a proposed technique to despin a huge asteroid with a tiny spacecraft.

Bagged or unbagged, despin seems to be a problem.

[edzieba]

With the not insignificant number of asteroids available to pick from, a good starting point wold be "don't choose asteroids with significant spin" (e.g. using photometry).

[LMT]

AstroForge Provides an Update on its Brokkr-1 Demo Mission

"AstroForge is now in 'a race against time' to complete the refinery checkouts and demonstrate the tech before they lose contact completely, which the company estimates could be three more months.