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Asteroid Mining is a company that has the mission to exploit the potential of an off-Earth mining market. The company was founded by Mitch Hunter-Scullion in 2016, in Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
The company is developing a satellite to prospect asteroids that are near Earth for mining candidates. Their data set will be commercialized to develop revenues from the Space Resource Database to refocus research and development on extraction, processing, and utilization of extra-terrestrial materials.
Asteroid Mining Corporation looks to mine data on asteroids using the APS1 satellite as there are different kinds of asteroids with different resource compositions. They are looking for rare earth minerals, Carbon, and volatile compounds such as water.
Currently, the company is developing a series of different spacecraft for prospecting, exploration and extraction, and each purpose corresponding to a differently tailored craft. They also look to provide a defense system against asteroids that are potentially on a trajectory of impacting Earth.
