Piratas de Cascotes

Develop an approach for characterizing the composition of asteroid for mining potential and a process for mining different compositions. Explore a possible division of labor involving different types of vehicles (e.g. sensor units, drilling units, power gathering and distribution, extracted resources handling and transferring). Consider solutions for moving said asteroids between different orbits and/or consequently make periodical adjustments to keep them in place. Analyze how your idea would cope in some of the given scenarios or outline a scheme of your own.

Water is an essential resource for human life. From solid water there can be obtained: liquid Water, Oxygen and Hydrogen as a carrier for life and essential for human consumption, such as Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Sulfur. While on Earth, one kilo of water is worth u$s1 in space can be worth from u$s15000 at the nearest, or u$s20000 orbit the Moon u$s30000 on Mars depending on the distance where you are. To do this, we propose Piratas de Cascotes, a service company to promote, develop, motivate and embark sustainable space exploration.

This involves a list of six stages which begin by observing the area, and then continue with robotic exploration and prospecting analyzing NEOs in a region of space. At the moment they have all feasibility studies, a first self-sustaining colony for water extraction is sent. Once the water resource is obtained, a permanent colony for the operation thereof is sent through machines that operate from hydrogen obtained from water extracted in the previous step.

All this, to be feasible, it has to generate surpluses and thus can achieve the marketing of Gas Stations. Thus, the space program is aimed at the explotation and marketing of Water, Oxygen and Hydrogen. To do this, we implement techniques for extracting water from asteroids spectral signatures based on a group of asteroids that metric, we assume that if the are in a particular region, present similar compositions.

A device with a converging lens in which concentrated solar radiation and source of gamma radiation and impact on the asteroid surface, increasing the temperature of frozen water: to extract itself, two devices are needed. This is where the device enters partipation T.I.T.O. (Tito Intership Transporting Object) which is a drop-down structure. The function of this another device is the catch the extracted material, before being taken to a Gas Station.

For this, a trading platform where they are located on the Moon and Mars is conceived. The transfer of the extracted material is done through containers that move to the T.I.T.O.s loaded and are unloaded at Gas Stations to exchange simple and efficient and above all to make it more scalable and sustainable.

- 3D Asteroid Catalogue: http://space.frieger.com/asteroids/asteroids/1088-Mitaka

- Asteroid Data Sets from NASA: http://sbn.psi.edu/pds/archive/asteroids.html

- Asteroid Data Base and Mining Rankings: http://www.asterank.com/api/asterank?query={%22name%22:%22Althaea%22}&limit=10

- Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study: http://www.kiss.caltech.edu/study/asteroid/asteroid_final_report.pdf

- JPL Small-Body Database Browser: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1

- NEOs API: https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#NeoWS

- NEO Program: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/groups.html