{"id":1969,"date":"2013-01-23T10:10:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T10:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?1969"},"modified":"2013-01-23T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T10:10:40","slug":"firm-to-mine-outer-space-for-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/firm-to-mine-outer-space-for-metals\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm to mine outer space for metals"},"content":{"rendered":"
A US company has unveiled plans to mine asteroids for metals.<\/p>\n
While it may sound like the start of a terrible film, plans are in fact afoot that will see Deep Space Industries (DSI) send a fleet into outer space.<\/p>\n
With around 900 asteroids passing the Earth each year, the organisation thinks this is an opportunity that is too good to miss.<\/p>\n
David Gump, chief executive of DSI, hopes to be harvesting metals from space rocks within the next decade and he believes this can "expand the in-space industries of this century".<\/p>\n
Rick Tumlinson, chairman of the organisation, said technological breakthroughs in recent years means things can be achieved that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.<\/p>\n
The company is looking to send its first exploratory crafts – the 25kg FireFlies – into space within the next two years and this could prove to be a great leap forward.<\/p>\n
Posted by Mark Wilkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deep Space Industries hopes to find an abundance of metals in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n