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Celestial Extraction Technologies and Terminology
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  • 1. Study of planetary surfaces guiding mining site selection.
  • 2. Crossing trajectory for spacecraft to multiple asteroid sites.
  • 3. Space’s defining absence exploited for certain extraction techniques.
  • 4. Process turning regolith into rock, complicating extraction.
  • 6. Material forced through a die to form shapes; also applies to certain asteroid formations.
  • 7. Machine that refines raw extraterrestrial ores onboard.
  • 10. To reduce burden—figuratively what automation does to human labor in space mining.
  • 13. Extraction technique utilizing aqueous chemistry in microgravity.
  • 14. Name given to rocks native to Earth’s satellite.
Down
  • 5. Remote control method vital for off-world mining machinery.
  • 8. Ionized gas state used for cutting or smelting in zero gravity.
  • 9. Ejection of surface material due to cosmic ray bombardment.
  • 11. Particles expelled during impact or excavation processes.
  • 12. Mining conducted directly at the source in space.
  • 15. Loose surface layer of dust and debris on airless bodies.
  • 16. Small celestial body targeted for mineral plundering.
  • 17. Structural ring component used to anchor mining equipment in microgravity.

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