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Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment Mission (AIDA): Space Mining Concepts

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Originated by NASA, the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission concept has been tabled by an international collaboration between the US space agency, the ESA, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur (OCA) and the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL).

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    NASA Planetary Defense, Edited by Tricia Talbert, Last updated 14 September 2017, “Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) Mission”, https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/aida

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    NASA, Edited by Tricia Talbert, Last updated 30 August 2017, “Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ) Mission”, https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart/

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    Space.Com, by Mike Wall, 11 August 2015, “Asteroid Mining May Be a Reality by 2025”, https://www.space.com/30213-asteroid-mining-planetary-resources-2025.html

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    Space.Com, by Mike Wall, 11 August 2015, “Asteroid Mining May Be a Reality by 2025”, https://www.space.com/30213-asteroid-mining-planetary-resources-2025.html

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    Space.Com, by Mike Wall, 11 August 2015, “Asteroid Mining May Be a Reality by 2025”, https://www.space.com/30213-asteroid-mining-planetary-resources-2025.html

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    Next Big Future, By Brian Wang, 12 January 2018, “Planetary Resources Arkyd-6 launched and deployed successfully”, https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/01/planetary-resources-arkyd-6-launched-and-deployed-successfully.html

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    Planetary Resources company site article 12th January 2018. https://www.planetaryresources.com/2018/01/planetary-resources-launches-latest-spacecraft-in-advance-of-space-resource-exploration-mission/

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    Planetary Resources website, Press release 12 January 2018, “Planetary Resources Launches Latest Spacecraft In Advance Of Space Resource Exploration Mission”, https://www.planetaryresources.com/2018/01/planetary-resources-launches-latest-spacecraft-in-advance-of-space-resource-exploration-mission/

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James, T. (2018). Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment Mission (AIDA): Space Mining Concepts. In: James, T. (eds) Deep Space Commodities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90303-3_7

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