The first prospect of mining asteroids of the earth heads to launch
A private company aims to raise a spatial vehicle in size microwave towards an asteroid at the end of this week, its goal of starting a future in which precious metals are extracted around the sun system to create great fortunes on Earth ."If this works, this will probably be the largest activity ever conceived," said Matt Gialich, founder and CEO of AstroForge, the manufacturer and operator of the robotic probe.It may seem familiar: a decade ago, the news was short on the wealth promised by the mining companies of the asteroids. But things didn't work."We blossomed three or four too early for the great gold race of the enthusiasm of investors for spatial projects," said David Gump, former CEO of Deep Space Industries, one of the previous lots of aspiring asteroid miners. In the end the mo...