{"id":95016,"date":"2019-08-20T07:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/apis-asteroid-provided-in-situ-supplies-is-a-family-of-flight-systems-based-on-a-similar-architecture"},"modified":"2019-08-20T07:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:22:51","slug":"apis-asteroid-provided-in-situ-supplies-is-a-family-of-flight-systems-based-on-a-similar-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/apis-asteroid-provided-in-situ-supplies-is-a-family-of-flight-systems-based-on-a-similar-architecture","title":{"rendered":"APIS: Asteroid Provided In-situ Supplies) is a family of flight systems based on a similar architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y09XY-ekQhM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ranging in size from the experimental <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transastracorp.com\/flight-demonstration.html\" target=\"\"><\/a> <a href=\"\" target=\"\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transastracorp.com\/flight-demonstration.html\" target=\"\"> Mini Bee<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transastracorp.com\/flight-demonstration.html\" target=\"\">,<\/a> a 250kg technology demonstration spacecraft, through the Honey Bee, capable of capturing a 10m asteroid and extracting its resources, to the Queen Bee, capable of capturing a 40m asteroid for resource extraction. All use an asteroid containment system similar to that proposed for the original Asteroid Redirect Mission, optical mining for resource extraction, and a water based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transastracorp.com\/deep-space-propulsion.html\" target=\"\"> Omnivore\u2122 Thruster<\/a> system for propulsion. A variant called the Worker Bee, can serve as an orbital transfer vehicle, transporting items to high Earth orbits and beyond, potentially even to Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranging in size from the experimental Mini Bee , a 250kg technology demonstration spacecraft, through the Honey Bee, capable of capturing a 10m asteroid and extracting its resources, to the Queen Bee, capable of capturing a 40m asteroid for resource extraction. All use an asteroid containment system similar to that proposed for the original Asteroid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95016","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=95016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}