Asteroid mining

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The topic of space resources and asteroid mining seems to come up more often these days. I wanted to explore what mining an asteroid might look like. How would a machine harvest and separate valuable materials in space? My illustrations imagine a set of excavators that funnel the materials in, and an inflatable debris shield that also helps gather the smaller particles. Constructed in many modular sections, this spacecraft would have a rotating habitat ring providing artificial gravity for…

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