{"id":28793,"date":"2016-08-10T01:46:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T08:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/first-commercial-asteroid-mining-mission-set-to-begin-before-2020"},"modified":"2017-04-25T23:03:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T06:03:15","slug":"first-commercial-asteroid-mining-mission-set-to-begin-before-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/first-commercial-asteroid-mining-mission-set-to-begin-before-2020","title":{"rendered":"First commercial asteroid mining mission set to begin before 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-commercial-asteroid-mining-mission-set-to-begin-before-2020.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a scouting mission. I wonder how much this will cost since this is not a sample return.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries (DSI) has announced the first commercial mission to a near-Earth asteroid, with launch planned by the end of the decade. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-commercial-asteroid-mining-mission-set-to-begin-before-20202.jpg\" alt=\"deep space industries\" width=\"970\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deep Space Industries has announced its plans to fly the world\u2019s first commercial interplanetary mining mission. A spacecraft known as \u201cProspector-1\u201d will fly to and rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid, investigate the object and determine its value as a source of space resources. This mission will be an important step in the company\u2019s longer term plans to harvest and supply in-space resources to support the growing space economy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futuretimeline.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/10.htm#.V6rp3XyrSo9\">http:\/\/www.futuretimeline.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/10.htm#.V6rp3XyrSo9<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a scouting mission. I wonder how much this will cost since this is not a sample return. Asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries (DSI) has announced the first commercial mission to a near-Earth asteroid, with launch planned by the end of the decade. Deep Space Industries has announced its plans to fly the world\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28793","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55997,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28793\/revisions\/55997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}