Space Mining Economics

Mission R&D cost:
Year mining begins:
Year resource returns begin:
Launch cost reduction
Reduce by a factor of
in years
Earth to target launch cost (at start year): per kg
Target to Earth first return cost (at start year): per kg
Mass of mining equipment: tonnes
Resource price (at start year): per tonne
Annual resource price change:
Resource market size:
Resource market CAGR:
Maximum mass of resource in a return: tonnes