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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Mining for metals on an asteroid: Spacecraft could begin drilling on passing rocks within just TWO YEARS

Mining for metals on an asteroid: Spacecraft could begin drilling on passing rocks within just TWO YEARS | Mail Online: "Asteroids could be mined for useful ores and minerals as they hurtle past the Earth under plans by a U.S. company to launch its first rock-prospecting spacecraft by 2015.

Space age: This image, taken from Deep Space Industries website, imagines how the process of mining asteroids could look. The space start-up intends to begin prospecting asteroids as soon as 2015

Deep Space Industries announced today that it intends to launch a fleet of unmanned ships to intercept small asteroids as they speed past our own planet, possibly finding metals such as platinum.

The company joins a host of other start-up firms which hope to soon exploit the untapped resources of near-Earth objects to help fuel our civilisation's next phase of technological development."

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