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Inside the Audacious Plan to Bag Asteroids and Drag Them Into Near-Orbit for Mining
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A Californian company wants to catch an asteroid like you pick a fruit... and then bring it back to Earth. Behind this crazy idea, TransAstra wants to lay the foundations for a space industry capable of producing directly in orbit.
Can Asteroid Mining Power a Trillion-Dollar Space Economy?
Asteroid mining will play a critical role in building the trillion dollar space economy. That’s the visionary mission of Los Angeles – based TransAstra. To make that quest real, the group is developing four core capabilities: “Detect, Capture, Move, and Process.” In the bag In October 2025, TransAstra deployed a “Capture Bag” on the International […]
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