The mission comes in the wake of the company's first demo mission in April 2023, Brokkr-1, a $10 million mission that tested the technology for extracting and refining platinum from an asteroid ...
The craft will visit a target asteroid, prospecting for valuable platinum group metals that the company hopes to one day mine. But in order to avoid giving competitors a chance to get there first ...
Where that asteroid or comet came from ... Germany analyzed samples of this rock layer—known to include traces of platinum-group metals that are otherwise rare on our planet.