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Asteroid mining will play a critical role in building the trillion dollar space economy. That’s the visionary mission of Los Angeles – based TransAstra.
To make that quest real, the group is developing four core capabilities: “Detect, Capture, Move, and Process.”
In the bag
In October 2025, TransAstra deployed a “Capture Bag” on the International Space Station. This Flight-Demonstrated Technology is designed to enable orbital debris cleanup and promote responsible space operations for the U.S. Space Force.
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The Capture Bag is a lightweight, scalable system designed to envelop objects in space, ranging from defunct satellites and spent rocket stages to asteroids.
New Moon
A larger version of the Capture Bag – measuring some 33-feet (10 meters) will be capable of snaring large spacecraft and components for de-orbiting, recycling, or repurposing.
Under the company’s “New Moon” initiative, that sized bag would also be big enough to capture small asteroids for enclosure to enable mining operations in space.
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In a recently issued video, the company shares more about how their patented technology will allow them to detect, capture, move, and mine asteroids.
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