Planetary Resources
| Planetary Resources, Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2012 |
| Seat | Bellevue, Washington (USA) |
| Branch | Asteroid mining |
| Website | planetaryresources.com |
Planetary Resources, Inc. is an American company founded in November 2010 under the name Arkyd Astronautics and renamed to its current name in 2012. Your goal is to mine raw materials through asteroid mining in space. Planetary Resources is part of the Luxembourg government initiative Space Resources and the Luxembourg government holds shares in the company (see: space assets law ).
history
The founding of the company was announced on April 24, 2012 in the Seattle Aviation Museum by a group of investors led by Peter Diamandis , Eric Schmidt , Larry Page , James Cameron , Charles Simonyi and others. A corporate goal is the detection of suitable asteroids with the help of space telescopes and a later automated exploration , investigation and mining of raw material deposits, such as B. osmium , iridium , platinum , palladium and water, by robotic probes.
In April 2013 Planetary Resources announced a cooperation with the US company Bechtel .
In late May 2013, Planetary Resources started a crowdfunding campaign to fund the first Arkyd space telescope.
The launch of the first nanosatellite , the technology platform Arkyd 3, took place on October 28, 2014, but it was destroyed in the explosion of the Antares rocket.
On May 26, 2016, Planetary Resources announced the abandonment of the Arkyd Space Telescope. The company cited a lack of interest in a private space telescope and the resulting inadequate further financing and economic viability as reasons. The 17,614 Kickstarter supporters should get their money back (a total of approximately $ 1.5 million).
Feasibility
Conventional mining company officials have been cautious about Planetary Resources ' plans and concerns about the potential impact on global commodity markets .
The Japanese space probe Hayabusa brought the first soil samples from an asteroid to Earth in 2010, which was celebrated as a technical triumph. However, there were only 1,500 rock particles.
The Wall Street Journal reported on NASA studies of ways to drag asteroids closer to Earth. It would cost $ 2.6 billion to put an asteroid seven meters in diameter into orbit. In theory, however, such a project could be implemented by 2025.
Web links
- Planetary Resources website
- James Cameron's new vision: "Avatar" director wants to mine raw materials in space (Focus)
- Digging for platinum on asteroids (Die Zeit)
- Asteroids watch out! (Handelsblatt)
- Mysterious company wants to exploit asteroids (Der Spiegel)
- Start-up wants to loot asteroids (n-tv)
- Planetary Resources - Press Conference April 25, 2012 on YouTube (Video)
- Search for resources in near-earth space (Raumfahrer.net)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bechtel joins crew for asteroid mining ft.com; Bechtel Partners with Planetary Resources for Space Initiative planetaryresources.com, accessed April 23, 2013
- ↑ ARKYD Is a Crowdfunded Orbital Space Telescope You Can Control time.com, accessed on May 31, 2013
- ↑ 30 Days to Reinvent the Space Industry planetaryresources.com
- ^ Paul Marks: Asteroid miners to launch first private space telescope. New Scientist, October 24, 2014, accessed October 25, 2014 .
- ^ Todd Bishop: Rocket carrying Planetary Resources satellite explodes shortly after liftoff. Geek Wire, October 28, 2014, accessed October 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Update 39: Final Update and FULL Refund · ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone. In: Kickstarter. Retrieved May 28, 2016 (American English).