American space mining company will search mineral treasure!
According to a report on Sunday, a private aerospace company in the United States is aiming to send a microwave-sized robotic spacecraft named Odin into space for commercial mining in an asteroid later this week. According to The New York Times, California-based American aerospace company Astroforge has already launched a demonstration spacecraft into Earth's orbit. At the same time, the company has raised $ 55 million in funding and is now preparing to target a football-sized asteroid 2022 OB5 near Earth.
What did the CEO of the aerospace company say?
Matt Gialich, founder and CEO of Astroforge, the builder and operator of the robotic probe, told The New York Times on Sunday, "If it works, it will probably be the biggest business ever." Spacecraft will be launched from Elon Musk's rocket
It is noteworthy that Odin is the second spacecraft of Astroforge and it will be sent into space before wednesday (February 26) through the Falcon 9 rocket of Elon Musk's SpaceX company. Along with this, a privately designed moon lander and a lunar orbiter will be launched into space from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Odin spacecraft will separate 45 minutes after the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and will then travel alone in space. The mission of this spacecraft will be to take pictures of the 2022 OB5 asteroid from a distance of 0.6 miles with a black and white camera. These pictures taken from the spacecraft will help in measuring the density of the asteroid and the metal filled in it. This asteroid is being said to be an M-type, which may be filled with about 117,000 tonnes of platinum metal.
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