A Return to Asteroid Mining, and Digging Into Space Ethics with Joel Sercel
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Sutter Survey and Sutter Ultra: A New Mission Concept
Sutter Ultra is a way to put hundreds of small telescopes in deep space on three carrier vehicles. They go into heliocentric space in a special orbit that we've identified. The asteroids you want to mine are what we call highly Earth-like orbits around the Sun. Sutter Ultra will find hundreds of those every year, and it's key to turning asteroid mining into a multi-trillion-dollar business.
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