Asteroid mining: Second company announces plans. Time to stake a claim? (+video) - CSMonitor.com
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Less than a year after a company called Planetary Resources announced plans to survey, then mine, asteroids, a second company has set out its plans to turn orbiting piles of cosmic rubble into rocket fuel, solar panels, and trusses for spacecraft hundreds to thousands of miles above Earth.
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As a start, representatives of Deep Space Industries (DSI) on Tuesday outlined the company’s plans to launch small prospector missions to asteroids beginning in 2015. A year later, the firm plans to launch its first sample-return mission, which aims to bring back samples of an asteroid not by the cupful, but in 60- to 150-pound quantities.
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