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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.
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.
Planetary Resources was being acquired by ConsenSys, a blockchain technology company, as of 2018-10-31.