{"id":18393,"date":"2018-08-20T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/planetary-resources-auction-put-on-hold\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T22:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:00:51","slug":"planetary-resources-auction-put-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/planetary-resources-auction-put-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Resources auction put on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> This month\u2019s scheduled sale of hundreds of items from Planetary Resources\u2019 headquarters in Redmond, Wash., has been postponed, according to a website notice by the auctioneer, James G. Murphy &amp; Co. The financially strapped asteroid mining company had planned to sell off laptops, machine tools and other pieces of equipment that were deemed unnecessary due to downsizing. Planetary Resources\u2019 president and CEO, Chris Lewicki, told GeekWire earlier this month that he and his team \u201ccontinue to work on our updated plans and hope to be able to share some more detailed updates soon.\u201d It\u2019s not clear whether the auction postponement is related to the company\u2019s updated plans, but we\u2019ve made inquiries and will update this item with anything we hear back.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Tour of Planetary Resources with CEO Chris Lewicki\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W89bwFbpcjM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Brief: This month\u2019s scheduled sale of hundreds of items from Planetary Resources\u2019 headquarters in Redmond, Wash., has been postponed, according to a website notice by the auctioneer, James G. Murphy &amp; Co. The financially strapped asteroid mining company had planned to sell off laptops, machine tools and other pieces of equipment that were deemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4927,1519,4820],"class_list":["post-18393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asteroid-mining","tag-asteroids","tag-planetary-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}