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Asteroid Resource Exchange (AREX)
A commodities exchange for resources mined from asteroids. Facilitates the buying and selling of raw materials extracted for 3D printing in space (e.g., metals, water ice). Offers standardized contracts and futures trading to fuel the space-based manufacturing economy, standardizing raw resources in space.

Future Scenarios that inspired this product idea

Space-based 3D printers use recycled satellite materials to manufacture new satellites, offering on-demand replacements and reducing launch frequency.
Extrapolated from The Space Junk Crisis Needs a Recycling Revolution - Scientific American

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