Detail Fool's Platinum?   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8826 (Mar. 2013), page SS5. Topik: Asteroids; Mining; Space Exploration; Capital Investments Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.75 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel It isn't a gold rush quite yet. But the launch of a second asteroid-mining venture in a year suggests that the allure of extraterrestrial prospecting may be as hard to resist for some as the Klondike was. On January 22nd a start-up called Deep Space Industries entered the fray. It joins Planetary Resources, a firm backed by Larry Page and Eric Schmidt of Google, which launched last year and promises to have its first asteroid-hunting spacecraft in orbit by late 2014. The potential bonanza is, well, astronomical. A single 500-metre metal-rich asteroid might contain the equivalent of all the platinum-group metals mined to date. Icy bodies could provide water to sustain astronauts or be processed into rocket fuel for future missions to Mars. Deep Space Industries might be thinking big, but it is starting small. Even smaller, in fact, than the relatively puny Planetary Resources. The firm is aiming to raise a mere $3m this year from venture capitalists, angels and private-equity funds, and another $10m next year. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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