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Space race heats up: Deep Space Industries plans to visit asteroid by 2020
An artist’s conception shows the Prospector 1 probe investigating an asteroid. (Credit DSI) One of the two big players in the asteroid mining market, Deep Space Industries, today unveiled its plan to land a 110-pound spacecraft on a near-Earth asteroid by 2020. The spacecraft, known as Prospector-1, would study the yet-to-be-selected asteroid to determine the value…