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The company Planetary Resources announced that the experimental apparatus Arkyd 3 Reflight (A3R) successfully cleared the International space station (ISS) and begins testing onboard systems.
Recall that Planetary Resources is the author of the ambitious project for the extraction of minerals from the bowels of the asteroid. Primarily talking about platinum, and rhodium iridia. As planned, the company huge reserves of these resources in space will allow you to obtain impressive gains despite large costs associated with research, run specialized machines and shipping minerals to Earth.
The original machine A3R was supposed to be delivered to the ISS last year, but it was destroyed by the explosion of the Antares rocket. The second copy arrived at the space station in April 2015 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Mission A3R is for three months. During this time, the base system will be tested, in particular, aerospace electronics, controls and on-Board software.
Later this year will launch a larger apparatus Arkyd-6 (A6) on which you plan to test the system to stabilize in space and power management, means of communication, and specialized sensors.
In the long term tested technology and components will be used in part of the space telescope the Arkyd 100, whose task will be to identify the most appropriate for the development of asteroids. Actually mining in space will not begin until 30 years. published
P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©
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Recall that Planetary Resources is the author of the ambitious project for the extraction of minerals from the bowels of the asteroid. Primarily talking about platinum, and rhodium iridia. As planned, the company huge reserves of these resources in space will allow you to obtain impressive gains despite large costs associated with research, run specialized machines and shipping minerals to Earth.
The original machine A3R was supposed to be delivered to the ISS last year, but it was destroyed by the explosion of the Antares rocket. The second copy arrived at the space station in April 2015 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Mission A3R is for three months. During this time, the base system will be tested, in particular, aerospace electronics, controls and on-Board software.
Later this year will launch a larger apparatus Arkyd-6 (A6) on which you plan to test the system to stabilize in space and power management, means of communication, and specialized sensors.
In the long term tested technology and components will be used in part of the space telescope the Arkyd 100, whose task will be to identify the most appropriate for the development of asteroids. Actually mining in space will not begin until 30 years. published
P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©
Source: vk.com/wiki_inventions?z=photo-56414092_373889736%2Falbum-56414092_00%2Frev
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