"We have a long view. We're not expecting this company to be an overnight financial home run. This is going to take time," Anderson said.
Planetary Resources declined to discuss specifics about how and when asteroid mining would begin. A 30-meter long (98-foot) asteroid can hold as much as $25 billion to $50 billion worth of platinum at today's prices, Diamandis said.
The company's first step is to develop technologies to cut the cost of deep-space robotic probes to one-tenth to one-hundredth the cost of current space missions, which run hundreds of millions of dollars, Diamandis said.
(Read by Nelly Min. Nelly Min is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)
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行星资源集团本周二公布了一项到近地小行星进行勘探,并最终开采贵重金属和稀有矿产的计划。谷歌公司高管拉里•佩奇和埃里克•施密特、以及著名导演詹姆斯-卡梅隆等人都加入了这项风险投资。
这家公司的总部位于华盛顿贝尔维尤,最初将着眼于研发并出售价格极其低廉的机器人宇宙飞船,用于勘探调查任务。
该公司联合创始人彼得-迪曼蒂斯和埃里克-安德森说,行星资源集团预计两年内在近地轨道开展首次示范任务。
该公司的目标是在私人企业中开展外层空间勘测业务,就如同迪曼蒂斯发起的奖金高达一千万美元的安萨里X-Prize大奖赛。
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