{"id":17483,"date":"2015-09-19T04:46:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T11:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/asteroid-mining-plan-would-bake-water-out-of-bagged-up-space-rocks"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:23:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:23:12","slug":"asteroid-mining-plan-would-bake-water-out-of-bagged-up-space-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/asteroid-mining-plan-would-bake-water-out-of-bagged-up-space-rocks","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid-Mining Plan Would Bake Water Out of Bagged-Up Space Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-mining-plan-would-bake-water-out-of-bagged-up-space-rocks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PASADENA, Calif. \u2014 A new way to harvest asteroid resources is being eyed as a possible game changer for space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>The patent-pending innovation, called \u201coptical mining,\u201d could allow huge amounts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/15372-asteroid-quiz-space-rock-basics.html\">asteroid<\/a> water to be tapped, advocates say. This water, in turn, could provide relatively cheap and accessible propellant for voyaging spacecraft, lowering the cost of spaceflight significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Development of the optical-mining idea has been funded by a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) fellowship and grant, along with a small business contract. The concept \u2014 which is also known as the Asteroid Provided In-Situ Supplies plan, or Apis \u2014 was detailed here during a special NIAC session held on Sept. 2 during the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics\u2019 (AIAA) Space 2015 meeting. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/15391-asteroid-mining-space-planetary-resources-infographic.html\">How Asteroid Mining Could Work (Infographic)<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/30582-asteroid-mining-water-propulsion.html?cmpid=514648\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASADENA, Calif. \u2014 A new way to harvest asteroid resources is being eyed as a possible game changer for space exploration. The patent-pending innovation, called \u201coptical mining,\u201d could allow huge amounts of asteroid water to be tapped, advocates say. This water, in turn, could provide relatively cheap and accessible propellant for voyaging spacecraft, lowering the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69531,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17483\/revisions\/69531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}