[ExI] Planetary Resources' prototype to fly today

[Alfio Puglisi]

Remember Planetary Resources, the company briefly discussed here more than
one year ago, with the (distant) aim of mining asteroids?

Apparently, they have some progress: Arkyd-3, a technology demonstrator for
the Arkyd-100 telescope, is hitching a ride on a Falcon 9:

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/04/spacex-falcon-9-crs-6-dragon-stage-return/

http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/arkyd-3.htm

A previous Arkyd-3 was lost on a failed Antares launch. Let's hope things
will work better this time.

And don't forget, today's launch is the first decent chance for SpaceX to
land the first stage booster on its slick-looking barge! (see picture
halfway down the first linked page)

Alfio
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