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CAPECANAVERAL, Florida | Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:32amEDT

(Reuters) - Google Inc executives Larry Page and

Eric Schmidt and filmmaker James Cameron are

among those bankrolling a venture to survey and

eventually extract precious metals and rare minerals

from asteroids that orbit near Earth, the company

said on Tuesday.

Planetary Resources, based in Bellevue, Washington, initially will focus on

developing and selling extremely low-cost robotic spacecraft for surveying

missions.

A demonstration mission in orbit around Earth is expected to be launched

within two years, said company co-founders Peter Diamandis and Eric

Anderson.

Planetary Resources' aim is to open deep-space exploration to private industry, much like the $10

million Ansari X Prize competition, which Diamandis created.

The prize, which galvanized the emerging commercial human spaceflight industry, was awarded in

2004 to Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne for the first flights beyond Earth's atmosphere by a

privately developed, manned spaceship. Commercial suborbital spaceflights are expected to begin

next year.

Planetary Resources' first customers are likely to be science agencies, such as NASA, as well as

private research institutes.

Within five to 10 years, however, the company expects to progress from selling observation

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platforms in orbit around Earth to prospecting services. It plans to tap some of the thousands of

asteroids that pass relatively close to Earth and extract their raw materials.

Not all missions would return precious metals and minerals to Earth. In addition to mining for

platinum and other precious metals, the company plans to tap asteroids' water to supply orbiting

fuel depots, which could be used by NASA and others for robotic and human space missions.

"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 in an interview with Reuters.

The real payoff, which is decades away, will come from mining asteroids for platinum group metals

and rare minerals.

"If you look back historically at what has caused humanity to make its largest investments in

exploration and in transportation, it has been going after resources, whether it's the Europeans

going after the spice routes or the American settlers looking toward the west for gold, oil, timber or

land," Diamandis said.

"Those precious resources caused people to make huge investments in ships and railroads and

pipelines. Looking to space, everything we hold of value on Earth - metals, minerals, energy, real

estate, water - is in near-infinite quantities in space. The opportunity exists to create a company

whose mission is to be able to go and basically identify and access some of those resources and

ultimately figure out how to make them available where they are needed," he said.

Diamandis and Anderson declined to discuss how much money has been raised for their ventureso far. In addition to Google billionaires Page and Schmidt and filmmaker Cameron, Planetary

Resources investors include former Microsoft chief software architect Charles Simonyi, a two-time

visitor to the International Space Station, Google founding director K. Ram Shriram and Ross

Perot Jr.

Planetary Resources also 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.

Among the targeted technologies is optical laser communications, which would eliminate the need

for large radio antennas aboard spacecraft.

"We're taking new approaches at design," Diamandis said. "Part of the philosophy we're taking is

building very low cost, very small spacecraft. You put up six or 10 or dozens and you get reliability."

Planetary Resources, which currently employs about 20 people, is overseen by former NASA Mars

mission manager Chris Lewicki. It was founded about three years ago, but has been operating

quietly behind the scenes until now.

(Editing by Tom Brown and Lisa Shumaker)

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CF137 wrote:

We billionaires are not rich enough, so we need to start mining asteroids in order to get richer. Yeah,okay. Some days Im glad I am poor, because at least I can say that Im sane. These people cant say that.

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A 30-meter long (98-foot) asteroid can hold as much as $25 billion to $50 billion worth of platinum attodays prices, Diamandis said.

Absolute poppycock. At a density of 21.45 g/cm3 and a current cost of $1600/oz, a sphere of pure platinum98 feet in diameter would be 7 billion dollars.

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scythe wrote:

sounds like ex-nasa employees know how to sell science fiction to billionaires

after they milked the american tax-payer for billions

and the break-even point is in which lightyear?


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