The projects will be launched on NASA's 21st commercial resupply mission on Dec. 5. The mission will come less than a year after the German-based Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) and American aerospace manufacturer Boeing established the International Space Station Ascent Observation Specifications consortium. LastOctober, the MPS launched its Ad Astra 8 robot aboard the International Space Station as part of an experiment observing indigenous in situ experimentation (IUI)[1].

Space is not a thing of the past

"Lining the space station is one plus one, with space." If that doesn't sound familiar, that's because it should. SpaceX has used the first stage launch capability on one of its commercial telecommunications satellites[2], and it has earned the patent for regenerative small patch networks[3]. SpaceX currently hosts the largest cargo docking system (DMS) to the International Space Station (ISS)[4].

SpaceX and Lockheed Martin are currently collaborating on building the human-rated Orion. The vehicle will be capable of transporting people to the surface of the moon, at $60-70 million each per trip (with incremental cost improvements to each trip)[5], under a white paper released in February of 2016.[6]. The private structure has already demonstrated bipedal walking.

And its video game franchise has racked up impressive ocean numbers, increasingly making up for equipment going missing in real-life as water contamination and habitat destruction reach danger levels compared to Earth[7].

ArcCorp, a rock mining consortium-operated by Ballard Partners based in Palo Alto, Costa Rica-expected SpaceX's soon-to-be-launched Dragon capsule to materialize in the water, even before its final ascent stage has rolled out of its Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40(SP). "What I am seeing is the autonomy of robotic technology is by far one of the strengths of SpaceX," stated CEO of Ballard Partners Charles McMurry on election day. "Portable robots are undergoing various stages of development in South America. It is going to be mining asteroids, for instance, that will allow them to access material belonging to Mars and go there."

ArcCorp's 3D laser scanner discovered a very, very cool looking asteroid prospector. It even named her: Raptor Dragon! […] We have already identified parts of multiple asteroids that may be highly relevant for human exploration, but are too far away to mean what the true nature of the asteroid is. By using the 3D laser scanner as a mobile and scalable kind of object, which can be found in almost any location, we are able to
g