Company - Asteroid Mining Corporation
Product/Service - Asteroid Prospecting Satellite, SCAR-E
- Classification
- Space Resources
- Category
- Resources - Asteroid Mining
Space Mining
- Fields
- Prospecting
Mining
Database
- Status
- Early stage
- First launch
- 2026
We are currently developing a satellite to prospect the near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) for mining candidates. AMC will commercialise this data set in order to fund further development of the Asteroid Mining industry, using the revenues from the Space Resource Database to refocus our R&D on the extraction, processing and utilisation of the available extra-terrestrial materials.
In May 2022, Asteroid Mining Corporation's Walking Robots Take First Steps Towards Resource Independence
- Asteroid Mining Corporation Ltd. (AMC) has closed a pre-seed round with Spanish company E2IN2 S.A.
- The funding enables AMC to develop the Space Capable Asteroid Robotic Explorers (SCAR-E) programme in partnership with Tohoku University Space Robotics Laboratory (SRL).
- SCAR-E will be capable of facilitating asteroid, planetary and lunar exploration and mining operations, as well as in-orbit asset maintenance.
- The robot will also be commercially available across a range of terrestrial industries.
Space Capable Asteroid Robotic Explorers
UK’s Asteroid Mining Corp. unveils SCAR-E robot, SpaceNews, 2023-10-13.
- “We are a robotics company with asteroid-mining aspirations,” Mitch Hunter-Scullion, Asteroid Mining Corp. CEO and founder, said Oct. 11 at the Space Economy Summit here. “Space resources is a very exciting industry. But it’s one which, let’s be honest, isn’t currently existing fully into its mature sense.”
- In the near term, the London-based startup will offer services with an six-legged, 20-kilogram robot called Space Capable Asteroid Robotic-Explorer.
- Once six-finger grippers are attached to its feet, SCAR-E will be able to scale walls and inspect ship hulls among other tasks. For future applications like lunar crater exploration and asteroid prospecting, SCAR-E’s mechanical and electronic components will be tightly encased to keep out regolith.
- The privately funded Asteroid Mining Corp., established in 2016, calls itself the UK’s first space mining company. In addition to its London headquarters, Asteroid Mining Corp. has a research laboratory in Sendai, Japan, and a U.S. division in Atlanta.
- While offering SCAR-E for commercial industrial applications, Asteroid Mining Corp. will develop Alchemist-1, a materials-processing satellite.
- “We are looking for International Space Station and lunar applications for this very robot in about 2026, 2027,” Hunter-Scullion said. “Beyond that, we’d be looking to validate target selection for an expedition-class mission. Then, towards the end of this decade, if not the early 2030s, we’d be looking to send this very robot or its son up to the asteroids in order to start exploring the resources so the humanity can take advantage of our celestial backyard.”
Asteroid Prospecting Satellite I
AMC is on track to launch APS-1, a microsatellite space telescope, into sun-synchronous Low Earth Orbit in 2025.
APS-1 will remain operational for a minimum of five years, scanning several thousand Near Earth and Main Belt Asteroids to estimate their compositions. The data harvested by APS-1 will fill our Space Resources Database, the first comprehensive inventory of our Solar System.
Asteroid Exploration Probe I
Alchemist-1
A materials-processing satellite.
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