Tag Archives: Deep Space Industries

Spitzer has helped choose a near-Earth object the A.R.M. could bring nearer

Posted on June 20, 2014 by

From its perch up in space, Spitzer can use its heat-sensitive infrared vision to spy asteroids and get better estimates of their sizes. This is what the author of a study that appeared in Astrophysical Journal Letters on June 19 … Continue reading →

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A bounteous final frontier?

Posted on October 25, 2013 by

On January 22, 2013, an American company named Deep Space Industries (DSi) announced plans to launch two spacecrafts, in 2015 as a piggybacking payload named FireFly to prospect for near-Earth asteroids, and in 2016, to mine one and return a … Continue reading →

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