Matthew Gialich

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Thinking On Paper · Mining Asteroids For Platinum | Matthew Gialich, CEO Astroforge · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

Kind of, but we're not going that far away from the sun, right?

We're gonna be traveling about point one AU or about, you know, fifteen to twenty million kilometers away from Earth.

We're not that far, to be fair, in the grand scheme of things.

Like this isn't a mission that is going to uh Pluto or Neptune.

Like that's a very different way.

And that's why Voyager, for instance, was powered by an RTG.

In fact, some of the largest solar panels ever built were for Juno, uh, mainly because they just couldn't secure the material for an RTG and those were just

That had to be immense because by the time you get there, you're getting so much less energy from the sun that you have to be able to balance that.

Same with Psyche.

Psyche has gigantic panels, they're huge.

If you ever go to ASU, you can see like a one-to-one scale model of Psyche, and it's just massive.

And you realize, like, oh, that's just because they're going really far away, and that solar flux is going to be much lower.

at psyche than it is here at Earth.

We have made some of the most power efficient solar panels ever created.

And I think it comes down to necessity for us, right?

We have small launch lots, we wanna be high volume as we go through it.

And so we really need to think a little differently.

And like this is the way you have to

The reality is, like I tell the team all the time, is I know how to build a spacecraft that will go mine an asteroid.

We've literally built it before.

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