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Re:How Billionaire Asteroid Miners Make Money -- Without Mining Asteroids
on Monday April 30, 2012 @01:42AM (#3908173)
I can't really see a business case where these guys would make a profit before their billionaire club gets bored. I don't think images from hundreds of little cameras are going to be equal the image from the Hubble or its replacement, the Webb. I hope these guys won't be another Iridium.
Maybe the military is funding them: http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/TTO/Programs/Space_Enabled_Eff...