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Meet Planetary Resources
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Planetary Resources will help sustain humanity’s future by accessing the vast resources of space, company officials say.
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Accessible Resources
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Many asteroids are in Earth-like orbits that offer accessible resources.
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Leo Space Telescope
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Planetary Resources has developed a space telescope with remote sensing capability. Data gathered from near-Earth asteroids will assist in analyzing the composition of the bodies to determine a commercial value.
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Near-Earth Asteroid
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Near-Earth asteroids contain a vast supply of natural resources.
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Asteroid Prospecting
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Planetary Resources, Inc. plans to send robotic probes out to prospect near-Earth asteroids, gauging their potential stores of water and platinum-group metals.
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Swarm of Spacecraft on an Asteroid
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Swarms of low-cost robotic spacecraft will enable extraction of resources from near-Earth asteroids.
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Thousands of Asteroids
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Nearly 9,000 near-Earth asteroids are known today, and more than 1,500 of them are easier to reach than the surface of the moon, researchers say.
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Capturing a Water-Rich Asteroid
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Small, water-rich near-Earth asteroids can be captured by spacecraft, allowing their resources to be extracted, officials with the new company Planetary Resources say.
