Now the California-based startup is attempting to make asteroid mining a reality.
That makes AstroForge the only company with a refinery that can turn M-type asteroids into PGMs in space, he adds.
Some in the scientific community are skeptical that the private sector will be able to afford asteroid mining.
Its all-or-nothing, lower-cost approach may help push asteroid mining closer to reality.
“I hope if nothing else,” Gialich says, “we’re known as a space company that went for it.”
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California, University of Central Florida, China, United Arab, United Arab Emirates, Utah, Los Angeles, Florida