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World’s First Asteroid Mining Robot

October 6 , 2020 1515 days 1576 0
  • The Chinese private firm, Origin Space is all ready to send out the world’s first asteroid mining robot into space in November 2020.
  • The robot is named as ‘asteroid mining robot’ by the space start-up in China.
  • A Chinese Long March series rocket will launch the asteroid mining robot into space.
  • The mission will be a milestone for the space resources industry.
  • It is a small, around 30 kilograms, satellite that intends to enter a 500-kilometer-altitude sun-synchronous orbit.
  • The robot will not be engaging in any mining work but it will only be testing the technologies.

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