Sentences with phrase «company planetary resources»

«The company Planetary Resources recently announced their intention to mine asteroids,» Bewick said.

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This is a real industry: There are quite a few companies vying for these rights already, including Deep Space Industries, Kepler Energy, and Planetary Resources.

Planetary Resources, a Redmond, Washington - based company founded by Peter Diamandis and commercial spaceflight pioneer Eric C. Anderson, is currently working on its own asteroid mining technology.

At the moment, a handful of companies such as Planetary Resources, Deep Space Industries and Kepler Energy and Space Engineering have announced various strategies to reach asteroids in the inner solar system.

Back in April, Luxembourg's crown prince, his wife and government officials paid a visit to Planetary Resources, putting on white gowns, gloves, wispy caps and baby blue bootees — a distinctly unroyal outfit sometimes called a «bunny suit» — to take a close look at where the company is assembling small satellites.

For more information and to view photo / video highlights of past Expeditions, please visit: http://spaceangels.com/expedition Companies and organizations who've participated in previous Expeditions include: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Planet [Labs], Facebook, Made in Space, Terra Bella, Planetary Resources, Spaceflight Industries, BlackSky Global, Ventions, Spire, Kymeta, Tethers Unlimited, Oculus, XCOR, Masten, Final Frontier Design, B612 Foundation, SETI Institute, Museum of Flight, Mojave Air & Spaceport, Boeing, NASA Ames, and more.

Planetary Resources is an industry - leading asteroid mining company developing technology to expand Earth's natural resource base.

Planetary Resources's staff of 60 includes 50 engineers recruited from companies such as NASA, Intel, Google, and SpaceX; a few astrophysicists; and even economists.

When Planetary Resources founders Peter Diamandis and Eric C. Anderson, who have known Lewicki since his days at SEDS, needed a CEO to help them get their asteroid mining company off the ground, they went straight to Lewicki.

Two U.S. companies, Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources, already have prototype mining probes.

At Planetary Resources, Mr. Lewicki is responsible for the strategic development of the company's mission and vision, engagement with customers and the scientific community, serves as technical compass, and leads day to day operations.

When Planetary Resources actually begins sending its first robotic prospectors to asteroids, the company will concentrate on space rocks that are relatively close to Earth, rather than heading out into the more distant Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.

In December, Planetary Resources will launch the Arkyd 6, which will provide the first demonstration of the sensing technology that the company plans to use to detect resources on aResources will launch the Arkyd 6, which will provide the first demonstration of the sensing technology that the company plans to use to detect resources on aresources on asteroids.

Startups vying for a piece of the rock include Planetary Resources (tagline: «the Asteroid Mining Company»), backed by billionaires including Larry Page of Google, and Deep Space Industries («Creating Wealth and Opportunity from Space Resources»).