Deutsche Welle – i4is asteroid mining research featured

Andreas Hein presents some of the results form the i4is techno-economic analysis of asteroid mining in this excellent video.

The paper: Hein, A. M., Matheson, R., & Fries, D. (2020). A techno-economic analysis of asteroid mining. Acta Astronautica, 168, 104-115.

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