{"id":19713,"date":"2012-11-14T00:03:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/newsmakers-2012-asteroid-miner-chris-lewicki-points-planetary-resources-to-a-new-industry-in-space\/"},"modified":"2012-11-14T00:03:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T16:03:41","slug":"newsmakers-2012-asteroid-miner-chris-lewicki-points-planetary-resources-to-a-new-industry-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/newsmakers-2012-asteroid-miner-chris-lewicki-points-planetary-resources-to-a-new-industry-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsmakers 2012: Asteroid miner Chris Lewicki points Planetary Resources to a new industry in space"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Lewicki with a prototype of Planetary Resources\u2019 Arkyd-100 spacecraft.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They plan to send robots into space to mine asteroids \u2014 opening up a new frontier for natural resources and creating a trillion-dollar industry in the process.<\/p>\n

Planetary Resources\u2019 mission would sound crazy if it wasn\u2019t for the people behind it \u2014 led by \u201cchief asteroid miner\u201d Chris Lewicki as president and chief engineer. A NASA veteran who was flight director for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, Lewicki leads the Bellevue-based company\u2019s day-to-day operations and oversees its strategy and vision. We\u2019re pleased to name him to our list of GeekWire Newsmakers of the Year for 2012.<\/p>\n

\"\"We\u2019ll recognize the Newsmakers of the Year at the GeekWire Gala, Dec. 6 at McCaw Hall in Seattle. Details and Tickets Here.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

We\u2019ll be spotlighting all of our 2012 Newsmakers on GeekWire over the next month, leading up to the GeekWire Gala on Dec. 6 at McCaw Hall in Seattle. Many of the newsmakers from the list will be joining us and the rest of the tech community on that night to mark a remarkable year of news.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest stories of the year was the launch of Planetary Resources, backed and led by a group of prominent technology executives and commercial space veterans. The company will first put prospecting telescopes into low-Earth orbit, followed by spacecraft that will leave orbit and ultimately swarm asteroids to mine natural resources, including water (hydrogen and oxygen) that can be used for fuel, in addition to precious metals.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a high-profile example of the Seattle region\u2019s potential to make a big mark in the emerging commercial space industry, combining our legacy in aerospace and software, and fueling our imagination in the process. The company\u2019s introductory news conference at the Museum of Flight was like something out of a science fiction novel.<\/p>\n

Introducing the concept, Lewicki said the idea is to use lower-cost replaceable spacecraft that can be tested without having to worry about losing them.  \u201cWhen failure is not an option, success is really expensive,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cWe will live with and learn from our failures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Lewicki with a prototype of Planetary Resources\u2019 Arkyd-100 spacecraft. They plan to send robots into space to mine asteroids \u2014 opening up a new frontier for natural resources and creating a trillion-dollar industry in the process. Planetary Resources\u2019 mission would sound crazy if it wasn\u2019t for the people behind it \u2014 led by \u201cchief […]<\/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":[4817,5659,5660,4820],"class_list":["post-19713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-chris-lewicki","tag-newsmakers","tag-newsmakers-2012","tag-planetary-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19713"}],"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=19713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}