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Planetary Resources turns gaze back to earth with $21.1m investment

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Creamer Media Deputy Editor: North America
 
SPACE MINING
Prospective asteroid miner Planetary Resources has received a $21.1-million investment to deploy and operate Ceres, an advanced Earth observation business featuring the first commercial infrared and hyperspectral sensor platform that would be harnessed to better understand and manage humanity’s natural resources. The Redmond, Washington-based firm advised that earth observation would from now on be another aspect of its operations, complementing its prospecting and mining of asteroids.
 
 
 
 
 

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