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Semi-Finalist
The Dragonfly
The DragonflyTeam Dragonfly's Submission for NASA SpaceApps Challenge 2016*Sensing Your Opportunities in Space*In the very near future, aste
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Cleveland, OH
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USA
Nominee
Nominee
Asteroid Mining to Optimi...
Exploiting the inherent advantages of asteroid mining and in-situ resource utilization to significantly reduce the long-term costs of operat
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Durham, NH
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USA
Nominee
Ngwenya & Ochre
Advice: Use this Document (https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=C0ACCE17125469F2!3483&authkey=!AFXeDk93ZgICxB8&ithint=file%2cdocx),
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Adelaide
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Australia
Nominee
Asteroid-Buster Swarm
We are Broken Jaw Labs,and we are solving the Asteroid Mining Challenge. In order to solve the Challenge, we propose an approach that follow
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La Paz
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Bolivia
Nominee
Cubesat SWARMs
For detailed information, please check out the short report we published at:https://www.dropbox.com/s/h5f8kfiooue4l84/Cubesat_...Near Earth
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Torino
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Italy
Nominee
Project Sentinel
Asteroids could one day be a vast new source of scarce material if the financial and technological obstacles can be overcome. Asteroids are
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Hyderabad
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India
Nominee
PYTHEAS EXPLORER
We are LightPath (http://lightpath.io/) an amazing group of entrepreneurs, developers, lovers of science and technology and most important w
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La Paz
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Bolivia
Nominee
NE Asteroid Mining
Team Star-Whals, Asteroid Mining ChallengeFor the 2016 Space Apps Challenge at the NASA Glen Research Center, the Star-Whals team has creat
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Cleveland, OH
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USA
Finalist
Termining
Our goal is to design an autonomous distributed asteroid mining system that utilizes swarm robotic miners called "termites" to ex
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Athens
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Greece
Nominee
Astro Fuel
Project pages https://github.com/Alumet/Astro-FuelThe issueFuel transport in earth-launched spacecrafts is a significant barrier in the dev
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Lyon
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France
Nominee
Space Asteroid Mining Sen...
ENGOur solution dealt with some processes that are three in number:Asteroid detection and targetingETS equipment deploymentResources transpo
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Dakar
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Senegal
Nominee
Space Dwarfs
IntroductionAsteroid mining may be the only way to ever visit other planets or solar systems as a species; we can only take that much fuel t
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Limassol
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Cyprus
Nominee
S3.14STEROID
Step-by-step guide how to snach an asteroid! #spaceapps #spaceappsby #BringMeARock #SolarSystem #OutThere #S314STEROID We've created
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Minsk
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Belarus
Nominee
J.K.A.H.S.M. (Just a Kill...
Asteroid Mining John Fogarty Ken Litfin Amanda Litfin Houston Russell Sam Woo Manish Chaudhary Introduction With the
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Augusta, GA
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USA
Nominee
Breaking New Ground
IntroductionInspired by the near-miss landing of the Philae probe in 2014 [Forbes, 2014], our team has developed a method for not only deter
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Melbourne
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Australia
Nominee
Asteroid Solus Mining
The Year is 2035 and you have been accepted to work at the first deep space mining facility.Solus mining facility has been embedded within o
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Brisbane
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Australia
Nominee
Fetch-A-Rock
We discuss the feasibility of performing interplanetary mining operations on asteroids located within the Sol solar system by addressing thr
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Reno, NV
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USA
Asteroid Hunt
We developed a system that enables us to bring small asteroids into earth orbit and then onto earth for mining and experimenting purposes. T
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Cairo
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Egypt
ASTEROID MINING
This project explains about the procedure of asteroid mining using drone. The drone is sent for scanning the asteroid and scan the amount of
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Bangalore
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India
MinerSat
Inspired by the rosette misión it is send a satellite into asteroids belt of located between mars and jupiter and scan the asteroids using s
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Los Mochis
,
Mexico
Ore Collector
How to collect material from an asteroid in vacuum and near 0 G environment? You cannot use vacuum cleaner -type collector in a vacuum. Mech
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Everywhere
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Planet Earth
Team HeeChee on (a)steroi...
The objective of team HeeChee to establish the concept feasibility of using the age-old technique of analog computers and mechanisms to conv
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Noordwijk
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Netherlands
Asteroid Express
Mission StatementAsteroid Express aims at defining a new mission approach for asteroid characterization and mining. Platinum Group Metals an
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Rome
,
Italy
Space Extractor
The solution to the challenge involves several parts, listed below:- Identification of asteroids with unknown or valuable resources through
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Rosario
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Argentina
Intelligent Swarm Wide Ar...
An asteroid detection, exploration, and mining concept integrating necessary technologies and components required to feasible extract valuab
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Toronto, ON
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Canada
Exo Prospect
Thousands of miles above us, comets and asteroids are waiting to be reached. Until now, asteroid mining has always been a firm facet of scie
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Auckland
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New Zealand
Asteroid Rush
We're using intelligent systems orbiting Mars to mine the Main Asteroid Belt's inner asteroids.
Paris
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France
Space Cowboy
Project: Space Cowboy Asteroid Mining 2016Description:Trying to find a solution that integrates everything required for this challenge, that
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Panama
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Panama
Augmented Space and Aster...
2015 November litigation result about deep space explorations opened up new domains for exploiting new avenues for mining: https://en.wikipe
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New York, NY
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USA
ateroids coming age resou...
basically we are talking about extraction of elements from asteroids. if we put an asteroid in earth orbit by putting a little spacecraft on
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New Delhi
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India
Предварительный анализ ас...
Анализ химического состава астероидов и физических характеристик на основе построения экспертной системы используя данные "Центра малых
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Kiev
,
Ukraine
ASTEROID MINING
Our main aim in asteroid mining is to find whether there are any metals in asteroid which is not present in earth which may be stronger th
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Hyderabad
,
India
Piratas de Cascotes
Water is an essential resource for human life. From solid water there can be obtained: liquid Water, Oxygen and Hydrogen as a carrier for li
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Buenos Aires
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Argentina
Tressure Asteroid
One of the most important constraints which limit the evolution of human technology is the continuing shortfall in the rare elements of the
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Nablus
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Palestinian Territories
Ukr Asteroid Mining
Heated rods by applying a voltage melt the icy surface and are deepened by 1-2 cm. After that the ‘wings’ of double plates of each rod go to
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Kiev
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Ukraine
AIET MISSION
The solution very briefly is a robot out of the ground can be directed to the place of the meteorite and take a sample of the meteorite anal
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Ismailia
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Egypt
S.A.M. (The Sustainable A...
The approach to determine the chemical composition is a multiple-part process which uses three different scientific techniques. The first st
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Waterloo, ON
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Canada
Mothership Mining Concept
1. Introduction Society’s demand for industrial metals, rare-earthmetals, and sustainable fuel components, are growing as we,
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Mandaluyong
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Philippines
M.A.T.X.X.
Presentación Proyecto.Pereyra Alberto Fernando.M.A.T XXHistoria. La exploración de materiales nuevos o desconocidos que no se encuentran hab
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Rosario
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Argentina
TungTwister
One of the biggest potential problems with asteroid mining is drill erosion. Mining of the fines (such as regolith), metals, and ice found i
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Sydney
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Australia
Astro-Potosi Near Eearth ...
Develop an approach for characterizing the composition of asteroid for mining potential and a process for mining different compositions. Exp
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Everywhere
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Planet Earth
Asteroid Eye
The project we are presenting concerns about asteroid mining. Our goal is to pinpoint the best asteroid for mining purpose. Principle: We a
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Dhaka
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Bangladesh
ProSpectUs
TBC
London
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England
Applying Solar Thermal En...
We leverage the power of the sun and take advatage of the asteroids inertiato deconstruct it in place.By manipulating a parabolic array of m
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Laurel, MD
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USA
ROCKMINE
The sheer scale of the resources available in the asteroids is astonishing. Firstly, there are 150 million asteroids in the solar system wi
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Pasadena, CA
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USA
Space mining
Prepare the project with the list of needed orvital vehicles canstellation to make an asteroid mining mission.
Kiev
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Ukraine
S.S.A.R.C. (Self Sustaine...
A proposal for a self sustained NTR thruster, involving a two-step extraction process which enables in situ water extraction to be used as p
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Rome
,
Italy
ACTR (Asteroid Compositio...
Our team created an asteroid classification solution based on reflectance data of asteroids from a sky survey. Our model classifies unknown
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Waterloo, ON
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Canada
Astro Shield for Earth-Ma...
Human deep space exploration will require the permanence of the crew in areas outside the Earth Magnetic field for several months: it will b
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Torino
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Italy
Laser Ablation for Astero...
Using high powered lasers, we propose a comprehensive system to mine space asteroids. This plan involves the DE-STAR, a large satellite orbi
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Berkeley, CA
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USA
Piratas de Cascotes
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Buenos Aires
,
Argentina
Astromine
We are AstroMine, a web service that informs the public and investors about possible asteroidmining. Today the Earth’s resources are continu
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Auckland
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New Zealand