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01-22-2013, 05:32 AM
From NBC News: Deep Space Industries will venture into asteroid-mining marketplace
A new venture dubbed Deep Space Industries is jumping into the marketplace for asteroid mining — joining a billionaire-backed company called Planetary Resources in what they hope will eventually turn into a trillion-dollar business.
In a press advisory, Deep Space Industries says it will create "the world’s first fleet of commercial asteroid-prospecting spacecraft." The venture also promises to develop a "breakthrough process for manufacturing in space."
"Deep Space is pursuing an aggressive schedule and plans on prospecting, harvesting and processing asteroids for use in space and to benefit Earth," the company said in a press advisory. Details are to be announced during a news briefing at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) Tuesday at the Santa Monica Museum of Flying in California, with webcast coverage via Spacevidcast and YouTube.
Read more at NBC News, click here (http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/21/16627863-deep-space-industries-will-venture-into-asteroid-mining-marketplace?lite).
A new venture dubbed Deep Space Industries is jumping into the marketplace for asteroid mining — joining a billionaire-backed company called Planetary Resources in what they hope will eventually turn into a trillion-dollar business.
In a press advisory, Deep Space Industries says it will create "the world’s first fleet of commercial asteroid-prospecting spacecraft." The venture also promises to develop a "breakthrough process for manufacturing in space."
"Deep Space is pursuing an aggressive schedule and plans on prospecting, harvesting and processing asteroids for use in space and to benefit Earth," the company said in a press advisory. Details are to be announced during a news briefing at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) Tuesday at the Santa Monica Museum of Flying in California, with webcast coverage via Spacevidcast and YouTube.
Read more at NBC News, click here (http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/21/16627863-deep-space-industries-will-venture-into-asteroid-mining-marketplace?lite).