Prospector-1—first commercial interplanetary mining mission

Wednesday, August 10, 2016 - 06:31 in Mathematics & Economics

Deep Space Industries announced today its plans to fly the world's first commercial interplanetary mining mission. Prospector-1 will fly to and rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid, and investigate the object to determine its value as a source of space resources. This mission is an important step in the company's overall plans to harvest and supply in-space resources to support the growing space economy.

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