{"id":139904,"date":"2022-05-28T08:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/an-asteroid-mining-startup-will-soon-launch-on-a-spacex-rideshare-mission"},"modified":"2022-05-28T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T13:02:20","slug":"an-asteroid-mining-startup-will-soon-launch-on-a-spacex-rideshare-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/an-asteroid-mining-startup-will-soon-launch-on-a-spacex-rideshare-mission","title":{"rendered":"An asteroid mining startup will soon launch on a SpaceX rideshare mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-asteroid-mining-startup-will-soon-launch-on-a-spacex-rideshare-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An asteroid mining firm, Astroforge, just had its ambitions to mine the first asteroid by the end of the decade, boosted by a new round of funding.<\/p>\n<p>The Y Combinator startup closed a $13 million seed round, according <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/05\/26\/astroforge-raises-13m-seed-round-for-asteroid-mining-ambitions\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">to <em>TechCrunch<\/em><\/a>, and the money will help it carry out its first two key goals, including a demonstration flight launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An asteroid mining firm, Astroforge, just had its ambitions to mine the first asteroid by the end of the decade, boosted by a new round of funding. The Y Combinator startup closed a $13 million seed round, according to TechCrunch, and the money will help it carry out its first two key goals, including a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}