Breaking News
Pentagon To Send 200 Troops to Nigeria
Trump Says He May Send Second Aircraft Carrier to Middle East To Prepare for Potential Attack...
A Market Crash and Recession Are Bullish, Not Bearish
What Are They Still Hiding? New Epstein Questions Point to a Much Bigger Cover-Up
Top Tech News
Drone-launching underwater drone hitches a ride on ship and sub hulls
Humanoid Robots Get "Brains" As Dual-Use Fears Mount
SpaceX Authorized to Increase High Speed Internet Download Speeds 5X Through 2026
Space AI is the Key to the Technological Singularity
Velocitor X-1 eVTOL could be beating the traffic in just a year
Starlink smasher? China claims world's best high-powered microwave weapon
Wood scraps turn 'useless' desert sand into concrete
Let's Do a Detailed Review of Zorin -- Is This Good for Ex-Windows Users?
The World's First Sodium-Ion Battery EV Is A Winter Range Monster
China's CATL 5C Battery Breakthrough will Make Most Combustion Engine Vehicles OBSOLETE
Planetary Resources delivers Arkyd 6 asteroid mining technology demo for launch Dec 2017
It was moved like rollon luggage into a regular car and driven to where it will be prepped for launch.
The Arkyd 6 was built in compliance with the 6U CubeSat standard. It includes the core technology that will be used in the company's asteroid exploration program including a mid-wave infrared sensor, second-generation avionics, power systems, communications, and attitude determination and control systems.
The A6 instrument is a broadband imager spanning 3 to 5 microns within the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. This region is sensitive to the presence of water – including that in hydrated minerals – and thermal energy, allowing it to be used as a tool to search for water on Earth and beyond. In support of our deep space exploration efforts, A6 is a part of Planetary Resources' research and development work to create an instrument capable of detecting water on near-Earth asteroids.
There are over 16,000 near-Earth asteroids that share a similar orbit to Earth. Asteroids contain the resources that make it possible to fuel and sustain life in space.