Deep Space Industries

Deep Space Industries has announced that it will conduct what it claims is the world’s first commercial interplanetary mining mission. It is planning to launch an unmanned spacecraft called Prospector-1 to intercept, survey, and land on a near-Earth asteroid as a prelude to space mining operations.

The Luxembourg government, along with the Luxembourg Société Nationale de Crédit et d'Investissement (SNCI), has entered into a partnership with the US asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries (DSI) to develop new commercial space technologies with an emphasis on asteroid mining.

Deep Space Industries (DSI) has announced a successful test by two autonomous Canadian satellites, which carried out the first orbital maneuver without human supervision.

Deep Space Industries (DSI) proposes setting up sentry lines in space to track and study rogue asteroids posing a threat to Earth.

Another player has thrown its hat into the asteroid mining ring in the form of a new concern called Deep Space Industries (DSI), which plans to open up asteroid mining within a few years.