Tag: Deep Space Industries
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Bradford Space Group buys Deep Space Industries, shifting focus from asteroid mining to propulsion
An artist’s conception shows a nanosatellite equipped with Deep Space Industries’ non-toxic, water-based Comet thruster system. (DSI / BSI Illustration) Bradford Space Group says it’s acquired California-based Deep Space Industries, which means that both of the ventures that were created to mine asteroids have now been bought up to focus on different priorities. The other…
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Deep Space Industries will equip BlackSky satellites with water-spraying thrusters
Deep Space Industries’ Comet propulsion system uses water vapor as propellant. (DSI Illustration) California-based Deep Space Industries says it has signed a contract to provide water-spraying thrusters for the BlackSky Earth observation satellites that are due to be built in Seattle. The contract covers an initial block of 20 Comet water-based satellite propulsion systems. The…
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Asteroid miners might need a few good applied astronomers to show them the way
An artist’s conception shows a long-range view of mining robots working on an asteroid. (Planetary Resources Illustration) AUSTIN, Texas — Mining asteroids for water and other resources could someday become a trillion-dollar business, but not without astronomers to point the way. At least that’s the view of Martin Elvis, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for…
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Space race heats up: Deep Space Industries plans to visit asteroid by 2020
An artist’s conception shows the Prospector 1 probe investigating an asteroid. (Credit DSI) One of the two big players in the asteroid mining market, Deep Space Industries, today unveiled its plan to land a 110-pound spacecraft on a near-Earth asteroid by 2020. The spacecraft, known as Prospector-1, would study the yet-to-be-selected asteroid to determine the value…
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Asteroid mining riches await: President Obama signs space resource bill into law
An artist’s concept shows a spacecraft mining an asteroid. (Credit: Bryan Versteeg / Deep Space Industries) President Barack Obama today put his signature on a law supporting the rights of space miners to extract, use and sell resources from asteroids, the moon, Mars and other celestial bodies – giving space-minded entrepreneurs something extra to be thankful for. “This…