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This Asteroid Mining Startup Is Ready To Launch The First-Ever Commercial Deep Space Mission (www.forbes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Assuming all goes perfectly, the company will have a survey of an asteroid with a commercial worth of several million dollars or more. Surely there's no way they will share that openly with the scientific community, for fear of corporate competition, which is a terrible shame.