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    William Mook
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    A powerful shortwave laser beam is directed out of the end of the tube onto a millimeter sized spot. Under the action of the shortwave laser a cubic millimeter of rock vaporizes into charged plasma. The plasma is processed as it moves toward the mass spectrometer. There a charged reflectron, a type of mass spectrometer, performs the final separation which segregates the desired species from the tailings. These tailings will be deposited in well defined locations and recorded for later retrieval. Desired species include the platinum metal group including gold. Tailings include valued metals for use in space. Metals like aluminum, iron and nickel.

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    A powerful shortwave laser beam is directed out of the end of the tube onto a millimeter sized spot. Under the action of the shortwave laser a cubic millimeter of rock vaporizes into charged plasma. The plasma is processed as it moves toward the mass spectrometer. There a charged reflectron, a type of mass spectrometer, performs the final separation which segregates the desired species from the tailings. These tailings will be deposited in well defined locations and recorded for later retrieval. Desired species include the platinum metal group including gold. Tailings include valued metals for use in space. Metals like aluminum, iron and nickel.

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    Lander Digger Dog

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    William Mook
    A powerful shortwave laser beam is directed out of the end of the tube onto a millimeter sized spot. Under the action of the shortwave laser a cubic millimeter of rock vaporizes into charged plasma. The plasma is processed as it moves toward the mass spectrometer. There a charged reflectron, a type of mass spectrometer, performs the final separation which segregates the desired species from the tailings. These tailings will be deposited in well defined locations and recorded for later retrieval. Desired species include the platinum metal group including gold. Tailings include valued metals for use in space. Metals like aluminum, iron and nickel.

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    Power Receiver (communications) Stowed Aeroshells

    Active Aeroshell

    Active Mass Spectrometer

    Lander Bus Lander Ready to Launch Filled Aeroshell (Lift Mechanism and Landing Gear Not Shown)

    Robot

    Mass Spectrometer

    Aeroshell Receiver

    Power Receiver

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    ! Aeroshells

    Power Receiver

    Robots

    Mass Spectrometers

    MEMS Propulsion Lander Bus Lander Stowed

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    ! Aeroshell Return Vehicle Stack

    Robot Storage

    Mass Spectrometers

    Power Receiver Lander Bus

    Lander Exploded View

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    Self Contained Little Dog Debra Tobin, CMU 2007

    Robot Snake Doctor Gavin Miller 1998

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    An eight legged dog with a snake like snout and tail provide up to a 30 meter reach for the mobile landing bus. The landing bus operates up to 30 kilometers from the power bus and main transport. The snake touches the surface it is mining with a hollow tube equipped with MEMS based plasma handling rings throughout its length. A powerful shortwave laser beam is directed out of the end of the tube onto a millimeter sized spot. Under the action of the shortwave laser a cubic millimeter of rock vaporizes into charged plasma. The plasma is processed as it moves toward the mass spectrometer. There a charged reectron performs the nal separation which segregates the desired species from the tailings. These tailings will be deposited in well dened locations and recorded for later retrieval. Desired species include the platinum metal group including gold. Tailings include valued metals for use in space. Metals like aluminum, iron and nickel. The dog is capable of moving along the length of the snake. In effect lengthening its tail and shortening its snout. The landing bus is also capable of coiling the snake for easy transport. 30 meters Return Aeroshell Earth Return

    Laser Plume Snake Fine Movement Plasma

    Robot Dog Gross Movement Mass Spectrometer

    Energy/m3! 8,400 kWh!

    $/kWh! ! $0.08/kWh! 2,400 m3/day! $/m3!! LL-Chondrite! $ 152.30! $ 700.24! $ 20.56! $ 354.78! $ 377.77! $2,750.13! $ 17.82!

    $/m3 $672/m3 17 years to process ALL $/m3! Iron!


    !

    Tailings

    Energy: ! !

    Production Rate: ! 888 MW!! Metal! ! ! ! $/m3!! H-Chondrite ! $ 49.62!! $233.41!! $ 6.61!! $114.35! ! $122.78!! $890.75!! $ 5.60! !

    $/m3 ! Earth! $0.01! $0.21! $0.02! $0.04! $0.03! $0.33! $0.02!

    MT/yr Earth 12 3 24 1 3 30 2800

    Landing Bus Planetary Movement

    Ruthenium! Rhodium ! Palladium! Osmium!! Iridium ! ! Platinum ! Gold! !

    $ 183.95! $ 848.77! $ 24.24! $ 425.15! $ 440.73! $3,228.90! $ 3.06!

    Totals! ! $/m3! ! kg/day! ! tonne/year!

    H-Chondrite ! $1,423.12! 163.0! ! 59.5! !

    LL-Chondrite! $4,373.65! 503.4! ! 183.8! !

    Iron!

    Earth $0.67 0.15 0.06

    $5,154.85! 576.5! ! 210.6! !

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    Metal! !

    ! !

    Useful Mass! H-Chondrite ! 12.2 MT/yr! 2.3 MT/yr! 9.5 MT/yr! 8.2 MT/yr! 8.2 MT/yr! 16.8 MT/yr! 2.3 MT/yr! 59.5 MT/yr!

    Useful Mass! LL-Chondrite! 374. MT/yr! 6.9 MT/yr! 29.5 MT/yr! 25.5 MT/yr! 69.1 MT/yr! 52.0 MT/yr! 20.2 MT/yr! 183.9 MT/yr!

    Useful Mass! Iron! ! 45.2 MT/yr! 8.4 MT/yr! 34.7 MT/yr! 83.5 MT/yr! 80.6 MT/yr! 61.0 MT/yr! 7.4 MT/yr! 210.6 MT/yr

    Pct.! /year!

    ! !

    Pct.! /year!

    ! !

    Pct. /year 312.0% 231.4% 122.7% 2,545% 841.5% 173.2% 0.26%

    Ruthenium! Rhodium ! Palladium! Osmium!! Iridium ! ! Platinum ! Gold! ! Total! !

    101.7%! ! 77.1%! ! 39.4%! ! 820.5%! ! 273.5%! ! 56.1%! ! 0.08%! !

    854.4%! ! 633.6%! ! 336.0%! ! 6,969%! ! 2,304%! ! 474.2%! ! 0.72%! !

    25143 Itokawa LL Chondrite

    Synodic Period: !2.92 a Metal! ! ! ! MT/ARV! $/ARV ! (millions) 129.78! 4.46! 80.28! 59.97! 58.98! 249.90! 5.02! $ 462.67 $ 394.39 $ 49.13 $ 732.67 $ 773.69 $11,593.59 $ 10.65

    Ruthenium! Rhodium ! Palladium! Osmium!! Iridium ! ! Platinum ! Gold! ! Total:! !

    588.40! $14,016.79 17.02 a 6 $81,605.73 (millions)

    Processing:! ARV Count:! Overall Value:!

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    1500 mm 2400 mm

    Aeroshell Return Vehicle 950 mm 4000 mm

    Iron/Nickel Propellant

    Platinum Group

    Laser Receiver

    Aeroshell

    MEMS Propulsion Ring

    Aeroshell Return Vehicle

    888 m Laser 888 MWp

    30,000 m

    Lander

    560 m

    Concentrator

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