Nextbigfuture – Planetary Resources describes new designs and advances for making satellite Imaging ten times cheaper and three times better and plans for asteroid mining. For Asteroid mining they plan to turn platinum from asteroids into a metal foam and shape it to fall through the atmosphere and land at about 60 mph

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