| Book Name: | Space Mining and Manufacturing: Off-World Resources and Revolutionary Engineering Techniques |
| Category: | Aerospace Engineering |
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Space Mining and Manufacturing: Off-World Resources and Revolutionary Engineering Techniques
Book Description:
This book produces convincing evidence that exploiting the potential of space could help solve many environmental and social issues affecting our planet, such as pollution, overcrowding, resource depletion and conflicts, economic inequality, social unrest, economic instability, and unemployment. It also touches on the legal problems encountered with implementing the new technologies, new laws that will need to be enacted, and new organizations that will need to be formed to deal with these changes.
This proposition for a space economy is not science fiction but well within the remit of current or under-development technologies. Numerous technologies are described and put together to form a coherent and feasible road map that, if implemented, could lead humankind toward a brighter future.
Table of contents :
Front Matter ….Pages i-xi
Space Exploration: What For? (Davide Sivolella)….Pages 1-26
Extraterrestrial Resources and Where to Find Them (Davide Sivolella)….Pages 27-50
Off-World Mining (Davide Sivolella)….Pages 51-79
Processing of Space Resources (Davide Sivolella)….Pages 80-102
The Art of Manufacturing in Space (Davide Sivolella)….Pages 103-126
Building Factories in Space (Davide Sivolella)….Pages 127-153
Making it Happen (Davide Sivolella)….Pages 154-188
For the Benefit of Humankind (Davide Sivolella)….Pages 189-201
Back Matter ….Pages 202-207
Space Mining and Manufacturing: Off-World Resources and Revolutionary Engineering Techniques PDF
Author(s): Davide Sivolella
Publisher: Springer Praxis Books, Year: 2019
ISBN: 9783030308803
