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AstroForge Asteroid Refining

AstroForge Asteroid Refining

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Commercial in-space refining of asteroid metals using concentrated solar heating and vacuum distillation
Type
Commercial
Trl
TRL 2-3
Organization
AstroForge
Target
M-type asteroids (platinum group metals)
Status
Brokkr-1 demonstration mission launched 2023 (partial); Brokkr-2 planned; WEF Technology Pioneer 2025
Breakthrough
First commercial attempt at in-space asteroid metal refining; AstroForge named WEF Technology Pioneer 2025

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AstroForge is a main documented in the 外星矿物知识引擎.