Asteroid mining is one of those things that sounds good in principle, but we’re not sure how good it’ll be in practice. However, one company in the US is making headway with its own plans to make the idea a reality, and they’ve recently announced a new mission.
The company is Deep Space Industries (DSI), based in California. Earlier this year, we brought you the news they wanted to launch a demonstration spacecraft, called Prospector-X, at some point in 2017. Now, they’ve revealed a new mission to launch by 2020 that will visit an asteroid, called Prospector-1.
“During the next decade, we will begin the harvest of space resources from asteroids,” said Daniel Faber, CEO of DSI, in a statement. “We are changing the paradigm of business operations in space, from one where our customers carry everything with them, to one in which the supplies they need are waiting for them when they get there.”
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