FIRST EDITION
○This general is dedicated to the discussion of space-related business and finance.○
>What is the space industry?
Space industry can be described as the companies involved in the space economy, and providing goods and services related to space.
>Satellite manufacturing
>Launch service providers
>Asteroid mining
>Space tourism
... and more!
>Important news:
Space X to announce who will fly around the moon on the BFR on Monday, September 17 at 6pm PT.
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When Musks BFR is ready to go to Mars. I'll bring a team of 10, and 50 tons of cargo to kick start Martian cities, and farming. Got my Bitcoins ready for this quest! By then 1 BTC is 1-5 million anyway.
Tasty bread. I see VET being a big player on the logistics side of things
what are your thoughts on asteroid mining using mars as a base of operations? was thinking about self-replicating robots too earlier today and how that could be applied to asteroid mining...
It would go.
>Identify asteroid near Mars.
>Send probe.
>Confirm composition of asteroid to check if it is worth additional time/resources.
>Send satellites relays in case of disruption in communication.
>Send robotic mining ship(s).
>Change trajectory to favorable position using mining ship(s).
>Send additional cargo, supply, and fuel vessels.
>Control from Mars system.
>Send refinery ship with humans. When enough ore is mined.
>Send construction ship with humans.
>At this point there would be regular shuttles with supplies/exchange of crew to the site maybe every 3 months a fleet with supplies and fuel arrives.
>Send factory ship with humans.
>Begin manufacturing ships/components/etc... at asteroid base.
Identifying an asteroid with enough material to make the time, and money worthwhile for investors is probably the hardest part. We need to have a population on Mars so the labor/food/etc... required for the asteroid base comes from Mars. Ships come from Earth. Space X might provide the engines if you make a serious case. That would speed up your pipeline. If you start from scratch with enough funding 5-7 years before it would be functional. Not impossible. Also I am sure NASA would be down to help. 5 years and 5 billion would be all you need, imo. I think space is a risky industry for investors, but that will change as more start ups succeed, and as see them join the unicorn club. All we have to do is convince investors. This situation will probably be in comparison to the rail road. Space tycoons will likely be an outcome. I really don't think it's that far away. 20-30 years tops before we see something like this plays out. Each one of those things listed above could be a company of it's own.
how plausible is it replacing that human labor with robots? it would definitely improve efficiency and cut out the need to worry about certain factors.
I hope musk sends a heavy rocket with a tesla car as a payload to blast a fucking asteroid containing nothing but silver right into the moon. Then they go to moon and collect.
kek
mars colonization would be really interesting from a sociological perspective. I am reminded of the end of Dr Strangelove where the war room discusses how to live out the nuclear apocalypse in the mines
>10:1 women to men ratio
>picked out for breeding qualities
Mars is a meme compared to asteroid mining and will be a giant bottomless pit swallowing up money for at least a century. Mars is .5 AU from Earth but 1.5 AU from asteroid belt, and is another fucking gravity well, it isn't going to do shit as a way station (maybe it's moons, but they don't have water that I know of so unless we crash an iceberg asteroid into one they're not doing shit either. Protip, plenty of near earth asteroids, those are the low hanging fruit. Right now most work to be done is prospecting suitable asteroids, find out which one has the heavy metals like platinum palladium iridium. Then build an industry around having a monopoly on that metal like debeers with diamonds.