A Return to Asteroid Mining, and Digging Into Space Ethics with Joel Sercel
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Transaster's Queen Bee in Space
We see ourselves as a utility company that sells water, rocket propellant, and in some cases, high quality electric power in space. As we move into space and industrialized space, it makes sense to go big. The vehicle that we would launch on the Starship, the Honey-B weighs about 5000 kilograms,. The Queen-B, which we see as the ultimate asteroid mining vehicle, has a liftoff mass of about 40,000 kilograms.
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