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The failure of the creation of a management plan for planetary resources in space has raised security concerns amid private sector growth in space.
The development of robotic capabilities to extract planetary resources is critical for states in the Global South.
Elizabeth Frank, a planetary scientist who previously worked at Planetary Resources, raised issues including challenges extracting platinum-group metals from asteroids, difficulty identifying such metals using existing remote sensing instruments, and a lack of experience working with metallic asteroids.
U.S. company Planetary Resources launched several technology demonstrators before encountering financial difficulties and was acquired by ConsenSys, Inc. in 2018.
By early 2019, Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources, the two major startups in the space resources industry, had been acquired by other companies with no interest in space resources.
The government of Luxembourg lost 12,000,000 EUR invested in Planetary Resources.
A venture linked to former space mining company Planetary Resources rolled out a project called TruSat on 2019-10-21 in Washington during an event tied to the 70th International Astronautical Congress.
ConsenSys Space was established by blockchain company ConsenSys after it acquired Planetary Resources nearly a year before the TruSat rollout.
The Luxembourg government, through SpaceResources.lu, invested 12,000,000 EUR in Planetary Resources in 2016 and lost nearly all of that investment when Planetary Resources was purchased by ConsenSys.
Planetary Resources was acquired by ConsenSys in October 2018.
Planetary Resources was acquired by ConsenSys a little more than two months before Bradford Space acquired Deep Space Industries.
In November 2016 SpaceResources.lu invested 25,000,000 EUR in Planetary Resources, split between grants and an equity stake.
Planetary Resources announced plans in 2012 to develop a series of spacecraft to prospect for and extract resources such as water ice from near-Earth asteroids.
Planetary Resources was being acquired by ConsenSys, a blockchain technology company, as of 2018-10-31.
The Luxembourg government acquired a 10 percent shareholder stake in Planetary Resources as part of the SpaceResources.lu investment.
Planetary Resources first announced its asteroid mining plans in 2012 after operating in stealth mode for three years.
Planetary Resources Inc. was acquired by ConsenSys, Inc. in an asset-purchase transaction on 2018-10-31.