Mosquito – Mining The Ice An Orion’s Arm future history image. This is a continuation from yesterday’s post showing the Mosquito at the target, working platform in operation. The Mosquito is a robot mining/tanker vehicle designed to mine water from icy dormant comets or D-type asteroids. This is a variant of the vehicle invented by David Kuck presented in “The Exploitation of Space Oases,” Princeton Conference on Space Manufacturing, Space Studies Institute, 1995. Previous post in series: Mosquito You can find the Kuck Mosquito on Winchell Chung’s Atomic Rocket site: Here. Additional information about the Kuck Mosquito: The Deimos Water Company. Future History Context Links The Mosquito first deployed during the industrialization of the outer solar system, around the +355 year mark on my Orion’s Arm timeline: Here. Deep Space Mining/Engineering Vehicle: Here and Here. Altering orbits & moving asteroids for resource exploitation: Bring Home the Steel and In Flight – Orion Heavy OTV. An asteroid mounted attitude-control system is visible in the lower right corner of my Stanford Torus image post: Here. All models are my own creations constructed in Bryce 6.3 and rendered in Bryce 7 Pro. As always thank you for your interest, thoughtful comments, and encouragement.