It's already a "claim jumping" enterprise with assertions that billions, trillions, even quadrillions of dollars are looming in deep space, ripe for the picking and up for grabs.But a "who-ville" of questions are in play: Who is going to obtain the data required to locate valuable resources in space?Who is going to identify the concentrations of material available, drill, excavate, extract and purify it?Then there's the recent NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) — the world's first planetary defense technology demonstration of striking and moving a space rock.Under TransAstra's Apis flight system architecture, Sercel and his team are pushing forward on an industrial scale asteroid mining system that features the Omnivore solar thermal rocket, a Mini-Bee demonstration concept and Worker Bee Space Tug."