How to Mine Asteroids?/Effects of Storms?

[turanasaurus]

I've got the same problem as Ferendra. I can't come up with a remote miner ship design that will cover its own maintenance costs. I suppose you could use large satellites, but that takes a lot of research to get them, which means you can't remote mine until much later in the game. That doesn't make sense. Maybe this is a job for the drones (whenever they get added)?