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Space Mining - Coggle Diagram

- - - - can countries or companies exploit and sell space resources?
- - - - requires extremely efficient mining practices that produce high throughput rates
      - relies on the response of the market
        
        platinum availability increases, price decreases, causing earth based mining to reduce bc less profitable, then the price would increase
        
        industries could begin to use platinum for more products if there was more availability
    - - mining and sending to cis-lunar space --> feasible
    - - high demand for use in propellant
      - mining water on the moon is the first step to future space exploration
  - - - water for propellant
        
        (CSM) lightweight tents collect water vapor from the regolith which is then decomposed through electrolysis
        
        Lunar CubeSat Injector which would deploy four 3U CubeSats into low orbit on would help map water on the Moon
      - easier to adapt already available mining techniques/equipment
    - - (WU) asteroid prospectors, Space Operation Centers, Carbonaceous Asteroid Mining & Processors, and Reusable Nuclear-Electric Tugs
      - throughput rate, lower-mass spacecraft, and a higher number of spacecraft per mining operation
      - Alternately using expendable spacecraft would increase production costs but decrease the time between successive missions