The University of Edinburgh is joining forces with Kayser Space, under the auspices of the UK Space Agency (UKSA), to carry out experiments around astroid mining. Dubbed BioAsteroid, the biomining experiment will use a collection of 12 automatic culturing devices fitted with a layer of material on which the bacteria will be grown in the ...

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