{"id":1785,"date":"2013-04-26T12:57:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T12:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2017-12-28T11:57:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:57:42","slug":"private-asteroid-mining-project-launching-tiny-satellites-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/04\/26\/private-asteroid-mining-project-launching-tiny-satellites-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Asteroid-Mining Project Launching Tiny Satellites in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A billionaire-backed asteroid-mining company aims to start putting its big plans into action soon, launching its first hardware into space by this time next year.<\/p>\n<p>Planetary Resources, which counts Google execs Larry Page and Eric Schmidt among its investors, plans to loft a set of tiny \u201ccubesats\u201d to Earth orbit in early 2014, to test out gear for its first line of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur belief and our philosophy is that the best testbed is space itself,\u201d Chris Voorhees, Planetary Resources\u2019 vice president of spacecraft development, said Wednesday (April 24) during a Google+ Hangout event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the fact that we\u2019re a deep-space company, we\u2019re going to use Earth orbit as much as possible,\u201d Voorhees added. \u201cFor us, it\u2019s a valuable learning experience, and that\u2019s what we plan on doing one year hence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cubesats slated for launch in 2014 will measure 12 inches long by 4 inches wide by 4 inches tall (30 by 10 by 10 centimeters), company officials said. These \u201cArkyd-3\u201d satellites will test out technologiesfor Planetary Resources\u2019 Arkyd-100 scouts, which the firm hopes to launch to low-Earth orbit on asteroid-hunting missions in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:\u00a0<a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.space.com\/20817-asteroid-mining-satellite-test-flight.html?cmpid=514630\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/20817-asteroid-mining-satellite-test-flight.html?cmpid=514630\">http:\/\/www.space.com \u2026 ht.html?cmpid=514630<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A billionaire-backed asteroid-mining company aims to start putting its big plans into action soon, launching its first hardware into space by this time next year. Planetary Resources, which counts Google execs Larry Page and Eric Schmidt among its investors, plans to loft a set of tiny \u201ccubesats\u201d to Earth orbit in early 2014, to test out gear for its first line of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft. \u201cOur belief and our philosophy is that the best testbed is space itself,\u201d Chris Voorhees, Planetary Resources\u2019 vice president of spacecraft development, said Wednesday (April 24) during a Google+ Hangout event. \u201cDespite the fact that we\u2019re a deep-space company, we\u2019re going to use Earth orbit as much as possible,\u201d Voorhees added. \u201cFor us, it\u2019s a valuable learning experience, and that\u2019s what we plan on doing one year hence.\u201d The cubesats slated for launch in 2014 will measure 12 inches long by 4 inches wide by 4 inches tall (30 by 10 by 10 centimeters), company officials said. These \u201cArkyd-3\u201d satellites will test out technologiesfor Planetary Resources\u2019 Arkyd-100 scouts, which the firm hopes to launch to low-Earth orbit on asteroid-hunting missions in 2015. Full article:\u00a0http:\/\/www.space.com \u2026 ht.html?cmpid=514630<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[219,1582],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-asteroids","tag-space-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}