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I'm 19 and want to build an asteroid-minining company

Rouskit · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:47 · permalink

I'm obviously not claiming that I'm about to launch a spacecraft and start mining an asteroid tomorrow. I understand that something like this could take many years and require serious work across spacecraft engineering, robotics, autonomous systems, asteroid prospecting, resource extraction and processing, orbital mechanics, propulsion, financing, economics, and regulation. One of my biggest motivations for creating this company is to explore whether we can dramatically expand humanity's resource supply while developing business models that allow the economic benefits of those resources to be distributed broadly throughout society. If humanity gains access to enormous extraterrestrial resources, I'd like to help make sure that abundance benefits ordinary people and the broader economy as much as possible I'm also closely following the ongoing UAP/UFO disclosure debate and the claims made by people such as David Grusch, Dr. Steven Greer, and others regarding alleged non-human intelligence, recovered craft, biological material, and advanced technologies. Until anything like that is actually demonstrated, however, I want to build this project around technologies that are known to exist or that we can realistically develop. I'd also love to meet other people who seriously care about asteroid mining, space-resource utilization, and building a future where access to resources becomes more abundant rather than more concentrated.If you're interested in helping build this project — whether through engineering, research, business experience, mentorship, collaboration, economics, or other expertise — please reach out. I'm not a bot so please don't take this down thanks :)

Siu_meow0610 · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:50 · permalink

I think you should probably learn what paragraphs are before you try to tackle deep space mining.

BroU_StyleHD · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:51 · permalink

Line breaks, aka, a deep space.

Monc_rer · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:51 · permalink

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The bank is going to expect a comma or two in the business plan asking for money.

Rouskit · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:52 · permalink

True but in the next few years if alien disclosure happens all that learning might become obsolete by then but for now yes I agree with you I just don't think it's solid at a long term timeline tho

Rouskit · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:53 · permalink

Fair the formatting definitely needs work. 😭

Alexzanderj14 · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:53 · permalink

You're 19. Are you in college or planning to be?

ClanRecruit_Mia · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:53 · permalink

They normally don't care about inconsequential amounts; like the amount you need to start a profitable rocket company. How much could it cost?.$10

draco1x1 · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:54 · permalink

it's like 1/100th the price of a banana

Gilaric · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:55 · permalink

Although it great that you're thinking about this kind of thing, how does a company like this exist today? There are a huge amount of technologies required that are not just impractical right now but not even in development anywhere on earth. How do you plan on running a company that's dependent on technology that doesn't exist? How will your company make profit at this point?

I can say that I want to start a company in faster than light speed travel, but it's not going to be solvent or profitable any time soon.

Are you going to be doing research into any of the enabling technologies for asteroid mining? What's your plan?

dragon5layer972 · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:55 · permalink

Yeah bad formatting but at-least this shows that you didn’t use AI to write this stuff 👏

KRenn_Play · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:56 · permalink

You might as well be a bot if you're just gonna copy and paste AI responses from free tier LLMs

higom · 6 Sep 2026 at 20:57 · permalink

You're first exercise would be a simple delta V calculation to determine size and time frame of such a mission. That would enable you to estimate cost and required sample return size to meet economics.

My Master's is in space systems engineering and could assist as a learning exercise