The student-engineers of Cardinal Space Mining shared the grand prize with the University of Alabama's Astrobotics club at the 2024 NASA Lunabotics Challenge at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo ...

7-28-14 Update: There they were, at 10,000 feet on the remote and rugged slopes of the Mauna Kea volcano on the big island of Hawaii, running their robot through the same volcanic soil NASA uses to ...

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WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Former SpaceX engineer Scott Nolan, CEO of startup General Matter, is on a mission to help end Russia's monopoly on a type of more-enriched nuclear fuel by producing it ...

The moon is about to become the first extraterrestrial mining frontier, and most investors may be backing the wrong players. While venture capital pours into space startups promising to revolutionize ...

・Tesla and Bitcoin investor Gali highlighted the possibility of Bitcoin mining in space, calling it a potential boost for decentralization. ・Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston said the company planned to ...

As I write this, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is making its long journey to an asteroid named 16 Psyche. When it arrives, it may confirm the presence of minerals which, when multiplied by the current ...

Starcloud plans to mine Bitcoin from orbit using ASIC hardware, arguing the economics of space computing favor specialized mining chips over GPUs. Starcloud, an Nvidia-backed orbital data center ...