Microwave Assisted Rock Breakage for Space Mining

With the new advancements in space technology and also involvement of private sectors in space programs, space mining became an attractive subject either in In-Situ Recourse Utilization (ISRU) on the moon or mineral extraction from an asteroid. One can imagine that excavation and break-age technique that will be used will mainly be affected by the terrestrial methods which has been tested, tried and proved reliable. Drilling rocks is the first...