Part of Planetoid Mines' overall strategy is to use the Moon as a test bed for hardware development. This will help ensure technological readiness and operational efficiencies prior to sending any autonomous mining hardware to a target asteroid.

Developing tools for multiple applications is a way to ensure a steady revenue stream, but it's certainly not a new idea. In a 2018 podcast interview, Dale Boucher, CEO of Deltion Innovations, discussed space mining and developing tools that are also marketable to mining applications on Earth.

When asked about how Planetoid Mines intends to develop a robust business case for space mining, CEO Kevin DuPriest responded, "Our mining infrastructure can be used here on Earth. Within the first year [of funded operations], we will be able to offer fuel cell products to terrestrial markets. Our long-term ROI comes from selling mining and processing equipment to space agencies and companies for use on the Moon." This includes technology for mining regolith, processing water from regolith, and splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen for consumption in fuel cells or cryogenic rocket fuel.

Planetoid Mines claims to have established ongoing research and development relationships to engineer and build these tools for demonstration on a lunar rover. One of the major difficulties of mining in the lunar environment is low gravity and dust. Planetoid Mines intends to demonstrate an excavation process using counter-rotating forces to maintain grip, and additional shielding to protect mechanical parts from the lunar dust. To get an idea of how this works, the closest design to their technology is NASA's Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR) technology.