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The next era of space exploration will involve longer missions and sustainability. But the drive for sustainability here on Earth could lead to commercial asteroid mining.

A new plan to extract valuable platinum metals from near-Earth objects

Founded as early as January 2022, California-based startup AstroForge raised $13 million in seed funding to build advanced technology in mining asteroids for so-called platinum-group metals.

Scientists are pursuing novel but contentious resource extraction techniques. One particular suggested solution, asteroid mining, is literally out of this world.

Billionaires have a disproportionate impact on the world economy, politics, and philanthropy. According to Forbes, there are 2,755 billionaires in the world. The wealthiest of them are members of an even more elite club and hold even more power. Many of these billionaires are the founders of technology behemoths, with a large portion of their fortune still invested in the firms they founded.

Anatomy of an AI System - The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)

Deep Space Exploration and Technology Market Is Thriving Worldwide with MAXAR Technologies, Axiom Space, Bradford, Blue Origin

Deep Space Exploration and Technology Market Is Thriving Worldwide with MAXAR Technologies, Axiom Space, Bradford, Blue Origin

What's surprising in the richest men's list though, is that one of the top 5 billionaires is an Indian tycoon whose wealth exceeded Amazon's founder, th

Space privatization is a recipe for corporate totalitarianism. Humanity would be wise to imagine a different future.