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China to send first-ever ‘asteroid mining robot’ into space this November – India Today
A private Beijing company, Origin Space, will send out the world’s first mining robot — termed as an ‘asteroid mining robot’ — into space by November 2020. The project, if successful, can open up a trillion-dollar industry.
China will send out the worlds first mining robot into space by November this year. A private Beijing company, Origin Space, will send out the worlds first mining robot termed as an asteroid mining robot into space by November 2020, according to the IEEE Specturm report.
The robot will, however, not do any actual mining. The mission will be a preliminary assessment of the asteroid mining robots capabilities of identifying and extracting valuable resources, aimed at the eventual mining of astero…
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