The American company Deep Industries talked about their plans for the extraction of minerals from the asteroid in 2020. First of all, we are talking about the ore.
The company by 2017, and plans to conduct test launches of their vehicles, and if successful their completion in 2020, the first such mission.
Experts say that according to their calculations, the high cost of the project will pay off. They plan to extract from asteroids are very rare and expensive types of ore: platinum, rhodium, iridium and others.
Also, the spacecraft will study the structure of cosmic bodies, subject to the availability of water and other important elements.