the Tiny European country of Luxembourg is going to hunt in large space for asteroids with rare minerals. Experts estimate the project start in the tens of billions of dollars, and the potential volume of the market is in the trillions. As transfers RBC, commercial partners Luxembourg will be the American company Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources of the US.

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the Tiny European country of Luxembourg is going to hunt in large space for asteroids with rare minerals. Experts estimate the project start in the tens of billions of dollars, and the potential volume of the market is in the trillions. As transfers RBC, commercial partners Luxembourg will be the American company Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources of the US.

the project will focus on the asteroids between Mars and Earth. They may contain rare planet minerals: platinum, tungsten, Nickel and others. The Director General of the European space Agency Jean-Jacques dorden estimates a potential market of trillions of dollars, and believes commercial development of outer space a very real prospect. According to him, humanity already has the experience of approaching asteroids, we know how to hold them, drilling operations and to return to earth rock samples.

In November of last year, commercial use of space objects is already approved by the U.S. Congress. Signed Barack Obama the document allowed companies Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources of the US to engage in commercial development of space resources.

Earlier in January, the company Deep Space Industries has announced the successful testing of nanosatellites, which coordinated maneuvers with each other. In the near future a swarm of similar machines can be used as a scout for mineral deposits.

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