Prospector-1: First Commercial Interplanetary Mining Mission

Avicennasis January 11, 2017 Space, Tech 1,071 Views

Deep Space Industries announced their plans of Prospector-1, which will be the world’s first commercial interplanetary mining mission. The plan is to fly to (and land on) a near-Earth asteroid. It will then start to investigate the asteroid and determine its value as a possible source of resources in space. Prospector-1 is set to launch somewhere between 2019 and 2022.

Deep Space Industries has worked diligently to get to this point, and now we can say with confidence that we have the right technology, the right team and the right plan to execute this historic mission.Building on our Prospector-X mission, Prospector-1 will be the next step on our way to harvesting asteroid resources.Rick Tumlinson, chairman of the board and co-founder of Deep Space Industries.

Prospector-X is the precursor mission to Prospector-1 and is a joint venture between Deep Space Industries and the government of Luxembourg. Prospector-X is an experimental mission to take place at low-Earth orbit. This mission is designed to test key technologies which are needed for low-cost exploration spacecraft. It is currently scheduled for a 2017 launch. This will represent the combined efforts of six different companies: Bigelow Aerospace, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, NanRocks, Orbital ATK, and the Sierra Nevada Corporation.

 

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