The Asgard Mining Cooperative would be a firm formed for the purposes of pursuing asteroid materials exploitation and would help coordinate effective asteroid exploitation across a variety of ventures in potentially many settlements in the solar-system. It would also support lunar and planetary mining activities, though most planetary mining would be limited to a domestic market for its products. In order to carry out effective asteroid exploitation a diverse assortment of activities and technologies must be made to work together. These include exploration, tracking, claim registry, assay, mining activities, and bulk semi-processed materials transport, each of which may become the province of separate entrepreneurial ventures. Several modes of asteroid exploitation are possible, ranging fr