A new space company will announce plans to mine the minor planets at a press conference in Santa Monica, California, tomorrow, 22 January.
Deep Space Industries intends to build a fleet of commercial asteroid-prospecting spacecraft that can harvest and process these chunks of space rock.
Until the 22 January event, the company's founders are keeping a tight lid on further information about their plans to plunder precious resources for profit.
By: Paul Sutherland, Sen.com, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/21/deep-space-industries
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