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| Subject: New venture 'to mine asteroids' Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:15 pm | |
| A new venture is joining the effort to extract mineral resources on asteroids.
The announcement of plans by Deep Space Industries to exploit the rare metals present in the space rocks turns asteroid mining into a two-horse race.
The other venture, Planetary Resources, went public with its proposals last year.
Advocates of asteroid mining hope it could turn into a trillion-dollar business, but some scientists are highly sceptical of the idea.
Deep Space Industries wants to send a fleet of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft out into the Solar System to hunt for resources.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21144769#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa |
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