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TransAstra Corporation has laid out a plan to capture entire asteroids using inflatable bags, tow them closer to Earth, and extract water from them using concentrated sunlight. The approach, developed ...

TransAstra developed the Capture Bag to grab asteroids or defunct satellites. This render shows a spacecraft powered by TransAstra's Omnivore Solar Thermal Propulsion moving the asteroid to a ...

It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth asteroid, throw a large bag around it, and bring the body back to a “safe” ...