{"id":156975,"date":"2023-02-03T21:23:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T03:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/asteroid-mining-startup-about-to-launch-first-mission"},"modified":"2023-02-03T21:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T03:23:17","slug":"asteroid-mining-startup-about-to-launch-first-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/asteroid-mining-startup-about-to-launch-first-mission","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Mining Startup About to Launch First Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-mining-startup-about-to-launch-first-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An asteroid mining startup called AstroForge is preparing to launch two missions to space this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-24\/asteroid-mining-startup-astroforge-plans-first-platinum-refining-space-missions\" class=\"\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> reports<\/a> \u2014 inaugural, albeit early attempts to extract valuable resources from space rocks.<\/p>\n<p>AstroForge isn\u2019t looking to actually land on an asteroid and start extracting materials just yet. Its first mission to space, slated to launch aboard a SpaceX rideshare in April, will involve testing out ways of refining platinum from asteroid-like materials in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An asteroid mining startup called AstroForge is preparing to launch two missions to space this year, Bloomberg reports \u2014 inaugural, albeit early attempts to extract valuable resources from space rocks. AstroForge isn\u2019t looking to actually land on an asteroid and start extracting materials just yet. Its first mission to space, slated to launch aboard a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156975","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}