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A Chinese firm has announced plans to launch an asteroid mining robot into space in November.
Origin Space will launch its first bot aboard a Long March rocket, operated by the China National Space Administration, following a push by China to encourage private companies to begin mining space resources.
The Beijing-based firm has dubbed its NEO-1 machine a “space mining robot”, though it is more of a prospector than an actual miner. Quoting: today [ link to www.independent.co.uk (secure)] Quoting: aether Do you imagine The Sun will mined? I imagine the Sun Will mind. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78657998 The next Russian space satellites: NEO-2 aka Alien Hunter Geospatial Ant Control. Oh no that is their friends Quoting: Big Dick Ronnie 78143666 China’s state-owned telecommunications carriers plan to launch as many as 10,000 satellites in the next five to ten years to form a constellation in low-Earth orbit and keep pace with US rivals.
Chinese cadres overseeing space technologies were reputedly jolted by space entrepreneur Elon Musk’s recent assertion that with 775 satellites up and running in orbit his SpaceX company had leapfrogged NASA as the world’s largest satellite operator. Quoting: today [ link to asiatimes.com (secure)] future sync
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