This amendment establishes a new program element in AppendixC.24 entitled "Near Earth Object (NEO) Observations." This new program element solicits proposals...
Juergen, Did you have in mind, that we as the NEAmines group might put in a proposal for this call on NEO-objects? I don't see that happening, as we don't...
Hi everybody, I'm back on. I did manage to get online during my travels every now and then, but not enough to keep our debates rolling. So we've been rather...
Hi Ueli, if you have an account in the nspires system, you may also read proposal abstracts from other researchers. In fact its also possible to submit a...
Hi all, While we get the milestone on the excavator finalized over in the "NEAminesProcessors" Yahoogroup, we can now also again pick up the debate on...
Jan, "To clarify the concept, Ueli--- A simple bolo structure only. Two masses, one at each end of a tether. Balanced rotation around a single strcuture to...
Jan, Rotating cartwheel stations and all...... Yeah, I do remember seeing "2001-Space Odyseey" as a kid when it first came into the theaters way back when. ...
Hi all, Been thinking again lately on the sequence of income streams for bootstrapping the whole operations. Remember that originally the idea to work on...
Hi all, I have just uploaded a new page on our asteroidmines website on what we have achieved and where we stand with the excavator, with links to the...
Hi all, Now that we've set up that milestone with the excavator/digger on our website, we may want to leave that for a while. What are we going to look at...
The 'Rig For Mining' web page puts together a strong case, Ueli. Looks good when all the imagery is pasted up in a single article, almost a newspaper in...
I have been accepted as a speaker at the Planetary and Terrestrial Mining Symposium in Sudbury Ontario. For those of you who have been here since the...
Hi Debi-Lee, very good to hear that there is active engagement and discussion emerging in the public arena around the NEA mining future prospects. This looks...
... We were hoping to present the meteorite experiments there too but we don't have the results of the first one and I am still trying to get some measurements...
In this post, I would like to draw attention to the strategic reasons for why we need to expand into space for mining purposes. This is mainly to support the...
For some reason, the YAHOO server is down, and has not been able to upload the last file in the series supporting the New Scientist article. As a temporary fix...
From James Wilson spacetrader.net b2b-galaxy.com Looks good to me Ueli, Good start. Would you mind if I link to it from b2b-galaxy.com My concept for this page...
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Hi Jan, (Travelling in remote Portugal, so just shortly): Yes we had an earlier idea to slam a NEA with an impactor then have a bunch of sensors scan the...
Organ pipes boosters (Travelling in remote Portugal, so just shortly): Jan, jup, is a concept that has been around. Most large boosters nowadays have strap-on...
(Travelling in remote Portugal, so just shortly): Jan, oh wow. This makes tons of sense. And we'd have to make that really BIG gyroscopes. In my minds eye I...
Sorry Jan, I'm right now travelling and conferencing and have little time to look into this, particularly because going online is difficult here. Could be...
I printed the solicitation. The transit of Mercury last year gave me an idea. I found some images with the new sun satellite. I started a drafting a...
I have had to change my plans to attend the PTMSS conference in Canada. The whole thing was not coming together with the exception of being accepted as a...
Joe, Phew, we nearly lost you!! Glad you tried to get back in. Okay, so I've uploaded your new address on all the Yahoogroups you were on (plus discovered that...
Hi Ueli, I trust that you are having an interesting time in Portugal. Have you come across any new landscapes, or terrain, that reminds you of Mars? Having to...
From James Wilson spacetrader.net/ b2b-galaxy.com Something we need to keep in mind, on asteroids, the rubble pile aspect with boulders moving around due to...
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Jun 2, 2007 3:09 pm
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Hi Jim, Good to hear from you. I think the problem of mass of boulders in a loosely floating blob of rubble isn't too hard. First of all the boulders will not...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the NEAmines group. File :...
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Jun 2, 2007 6:32 pm
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Hi all, I'm again sending the below message which I had sent on May 10th. The reason is because it lists the competencies required to achieve NEAmining, and...