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Private spaceflight companies include non-governmental or privately-owned entities focused on developing and/or offering equipment and services geared towards spaceflight, both robotic and human. This list includes both inactive and active entities.
AstroForge is an aerospace company based in Huntington Beach, California, and was founded by Matthew Gialich and Jose Acain on January 10, 2022.The company is working on developing asteroid mining technologies, aiming to become the first commercial entity to do so.
Planetary Resources, Inc., formerly known as Arkyd Astronautics, was an American company that was formed on 1 January 2009, [1] [2] and reorganized and renamed in 2012. Its stated goal was to "expand Earth's natural resource base" [3] by developing and deploying the technologies for asteroid mining.
Before 1970, asteroid mining existed largely within the realm of science fiction. Publications such as Worlds of If, [8] Scavengers in Space, [9] and Miners in the Sky [10] told stories about the conceived dangers, motives, and experiences of mining asteroids.
Asteroid mining has the potential to be wildly lucrative, but for decades companies have tried and failed to make it a reality. High risk, high reward: Startups are still eager to mine space rocks ...
Some early private companies like Shackleton Energy Company, [117] Deep Space Industries, Planetoid Mines, Golden Spike Company, Planetary Resources, Astrobotic Technology, and Moon Express are planning private commercial scouting and mining ventures on the Moon. [1] [118]
Private spaceflight refers to spaceflight developments that are not conducted by a government agency, such as NASA or ESA.. During the early decades of the Space Age, the government space agencies of the Soviet Union and United States pioneered space technology in collaboration with affiliated design bureaus in the USSR and private companies in the US.
That act was supported by lobbying efforts by Planetary Resources, a Washington-based company that hopes to commercially mine asteroids. Additional lobbying by Deep Space Industries and Bigelow Resources, two other companies with commercial interests in space, helped the proposed Asteroids Act along, which was later rolled into the SPACE Act. [11]