January 22, 2013Fleet of Asteroid Hunters Aims for 2015 LaunchRebecca Boyle, Popular Science
| ||||
![]() AP Photo Another new asteroid mining venture plans to send fleets of small spacecraft to rendezvous with space rocks, aiming to harvest their contents. That makes two startups now in the asteroid-rush of the early 21st-century teens. This one also plans to use asteroid materials right where they’re found, as feedstock for spaceborne 3-D printers. TAGGED: satellites, robotics, mining, asteroids RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
| ||||