AI-Powered Asteroid Mining Intelligence

AI that maps the
trillion-dollar wealth
hiding in asteroids

OreVault is the intelligence platform for the asteroid mining industry. AI-powered composition analysis. Extraction feasibility scoring. Mission economics optimization. Built for every company reaching for space resources.

Over 600,000 known asteroids. Trillions in untapped resources. Zero intelligence platforms. Until now.

600K+
Known asteroids cataloged
$700Q+
Estimated mineral value in belt
$55M+
Raised by AstroForge alone
0
AI intelligence platforms for mining
The Problem

Earth is running out of critical minerals.
The answer is above us, not below.

Platinum group metals, rare earth elements, and critical minerals power every advanced technology on Earth. Electric vehicles, semiconductors, renewable energy, medical devices, and defense systems all depend on minerals that are increasingly scarce, geopolitically concentrated, and environmentally destructive to mine. The World Bank projects a 500% increase in demand for some minerals by 2050 to meet clean energy targets alone.

Meanwhile, a single metallic asteroid 500 meters wide can contain more platinum than has ever been mined in human history. The asteroid belt holds mineral wealth estimated in the quintillions of dollars. NASA, ESA, and private companies like AstroForge, Karman+, and TransAstra are racing to develop the technology to access these resources.

But there is a critical gap: nobody has built the intelligence layer. Mining companies on Earth do not send drills into the ground blindly. They conduct extensive geological surveys, resource estimation, and extraction modeling first. Asteroid mining companies today lack equivalent tools. They are navigating trillions of dollars in potential resources with incomplete data, manual analysis, and no unified intelligence platform.

500%
Projected mineral demand increase by 2050
~30
Asteroids visited by spacecraft in history
$0
Revenue from asteroid mining to date
Our Solution

The geological survey for space.
Analyze. Rank. Plan. Mine.

OreVault builds the AI-powered intelligence platform that every asteroid mining company needs. We transform raw spectral data, orbital mechanics, and materials science into actionable mining intelligence: which asteroids to target, what they contain, how to extract it, and whether the economics justify the mission.

LAYER 01

Composition Intelligence Engine

Machine learning models trained on spectral data from NASA, ESA, and ground-based surveys classify asteroid composition with unprecedented accuracy. Identify platinum group metals, rare earths, water ice, and structural metals from photometric and spectroscopic observations.

LAYER 02

Extraction Feasibility Analyzer

AI-optimized extraction planning that models material properties, gravity environments, thermal conditions, and processing requirements. Score every known asteroid on extraction difficulty, expected yield, and resource value per unit mass.

LAYER 03

Mission Economics Optimizer

End-to-end mission cost modeling with AI. Delta-v requirements, launch windows, transit times, fuel budgets, payload capacity, and return-on-investment projections. Know whether an asteroid is worth visiting before you build the spacecraft.

600K+ asteroids analyzed
AI-powered feasibility scoring
Orbital mechanics integration
Mission ROI projections
Market Opportunity

The asteroid mining industry is being built right now

$4.5B+
TAM by 2030
Asteroid mining market (21% CAGR)
$17.9B
Space mining by 2034
Broader space resource extraction
4x
YoY funding increase
Space VC investment surge in 2025

AstroForge raised $55M, targeting platinum on metallic asteroids

First commercial deep space asteroid mining mission launched in 2025. Landing mission planned for 2026.

Karman+ raised $20M seed for autonomous mining spacecraft

Building vessels to mine asteroids and extract water for in-orbit refueling. First launch targeted 2027.

$4.5B in space tech VC investment in H1 2025 alone

Four times the total investment across all of 2024. Major VCs including Sequoia, a16z, Founders Fund entering the sector.

NASA, ESA, and JAXA all investing in asteroid characterization

OSIRIS-REx returned asteroid samples. Psyche mission en route to a metallic asteroid. Hera mission studying binary asteroid system.

Why Now

The AI inflection point for space resources

Three converging breakthroughs make OreVault possible for the first time. ML spectral classification has proven 92%+ accuracy on meteorite data. Public asteroid databases now cover 600,000+ objects. And the first companies building asteroid mining hardware need intelligence tools today.

AI

ML Spectral Classification

92% accuracy on meteorite composition

Machine learning models trained on meteorite spectroscopic data can classify asteroid compositions into eight categories. Logistic regression and neural networks outperform traditional taxonomy on photometric data from SDSS, Gaia, and ground-based surveys.

Data

Massive Public Datasets

NASA PDS, SMASS, SDSS, Asterank

NASA JPL Small Body Database covers 600,000+ asteroids with orbital data updated daily. SMASS provides spectral data. SDSS Moving Object Catalog has 100,000+ asteroid observations. All free, all machine-readable, all waiting to be unified by AI.

Demand

Active Hardware Companies

AstroForge, Karman+, TransAstra

For the first time, multiple well-funded companies are building spacecraft to physically reach and mine asteroids. AstroForge launched its first deep space mission in 2025. These companies need intelligence tools and they need them now.

Technology Roadmap

Now
Asteroid composition database + mining feasibility rankings
Unified database of 600K+ asteroids with AI-inferred composition, economic value estimates, and accessibility scores
6 mo
Spectral analysis pipeline with ML classification
Automated spectral data ingestion from new surveys with real-time composition inference
12 mo
Mission planning API with delta-v optimization
Full mission economics: launch windows, fuel budgets, payload optimization, ROI projections
24 mo
Proprietary asteroid observation data integration
Partnerships with ground-based and space-based telescope networks for higher-fidelity composition data
5 yr
Real-time extraction guidance for in-situ operations
AI copilot for active mining missions: resource mapping, extraction sequencing, processing optimization
Team

Built by an AI-native founder

AP

Avi Pilcer

Founder and CEO

15+ years in AI/ML. Former Head of AI Innovation at Motorola Solutions. Computational biology research at Bar-Ilan University (BINA), where modeling complex physical and biological systems trained the intuition for mapping asteroid compositions from spectral data. Founder of Ultra Deep Tech (AI safety lab). Deep reinforcement learning expertise from algorithmic trading at Geyser Light Capital. M.Sc. Industrial Engineering, B.Sc. Mathematics and Physics.

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Why AI-native matters for asteroid mining

Asteroid mining hardware companies are run by aerospace engineers and planetary scientists. They build spacecraft brilliantly but lack the ML expertise to build production-grade intelligence systems. Academic researchers publish classification papers but will not productize them. OreVault bridges this gap: an AI-native company with deep domain integration, purpose-built to serve every space mining company as an independent intelligence platform.

Seeking Domain Advisors

Planetary science, asteroid spectroscopy, mining engineering, orbital mechanics

Building a Founding Team

ML engineers, planetary scientists, mining analysts. Get in touch

Roadmap

The path to mapping every minable asteroid

1
Months 1-3

AsteroidDB MVP launch + first users

Asteroid composition intelligence platform live. First 200 researchers and space mining engineers on the platform.

2
Months 4-6

Pre-seed fundraise + team building

Raise $1.5M. Hire founding ML and planetary science engineers.

3
Months 7-12

Enterprise pilots + API launch

3+ enterprise pilots with asteroid mining and space resource companies. Mission planning API. Custom analysis tools.

4
Year 2

Seed raise + observation partnerships

Raise $4M. Telescope network data integrations. Proprietary spectral data pipeline.

5
Year 3+

Series A + in-situ guidance

AI copilot for active mining operations. The standard intelligence platform for space resource extraction.

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