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Asteroid Mining Firms Have Begun Launching a Counterattack on The Academic Findings
Jan 16, 2014Asteroid mining's prospects as a trillion-dollar industry could be mildly tarnished by a new Harvard study that found few space rocks near Earth worth mining. But asteroid mining firms have already begun launching a counterattack on the ...
Tags: asteroid mining, space rocks, space mining
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Deep Space Industries Hopes to Launch a Fleet of Small Spacecraft, Dubbed Fireflies
Jan 24, 2013A new company is looking to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids and one day act as an outer space gas station and an oasis for human colonies in space. Deep Space Industries Inc. announced Tuesday that it hopes to launch a fleet of small ...
Tags: Space Prospectors, human colonies, near-Earth asteroids