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Deep Space Industries
« on: 01/22/2013 02:20 am »
I Wonder why this hasn't been posted here yet. are people reserved because its David Gump?

http://www.space.com/19362-asteroid-mining-deep-space-industries.html

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #1 on: 01/22/2013 02:39 am »
Tony De La Rosa, ...I'm no Feline Dealer!! I move mountains.  but I'm better known for "I think it's highly sexual." Japanese to English Translation.

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #2 on: 08/10/2016 01:12 am »
Lots of information on their website about ProspectorX &1 besides other stuff they are doing.

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #3 on: 06/05/2017 07:09 pm »
Some info on DSI from the Spaceflight Industries blog:

Customer profile: Deep Space Industries
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Before DSI begins mining asteroids, they are earning their stellar reputation by selling their asteroid spacecraft equipment to commercial customers closer to home. They have spent the last few years building clean, launch-safe propulsion systems for satellite constellations, notably for Virginia-based customer HawkEye 360’s first pathfinder cluster, which will detect and locate a broad range of radio transmissions from low-Earth orbit, which has great implications for transportation infrastructure monitoring. The first three HawkEye spacecraft, for which DSI is the mission prime, will launch in late 2017 on-board Spaceflight’s SSO-A rideshare. By 2020, DSI intends to fly its first asteroid microsatellite, called Prospector-1, which the DSI team is actively working on today. This spacecraft will start in LEO and make its own way to a destination of interest using a second-generation launch-safe, high-thrust propulsion system proprietary to DSI.

(We've seen other articles/blogs recently with SSO-A launching in early 2018.)

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #4 on: 07/25/2017 06:30 am »
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Doug Jones joins Deep Space Industries to lead development of next generation propulsion systems.

Deep Space Industries is pleased to announce that Doug Jones, formerly chief test engineer at XCOR, is joining the company’s growing team as director of propulsion systems.
“We see Doug as one of the top rocket engineers in the country, and a great addition to our first-class team of small-spacecraft engineers,” said Bill Miller, the chief executive officer of Deep Space Industries.  “He will be helping us develop the high performance, inexpensive propulsion that is critical to radically lowering the cost of deep space exploration.”

Mr. Jones has designed, built and tested over a dozen different rocket designs for a wide range of customers, including two manned vehicles. Doug has decades of aerospace engineering experience ranging from liquid rocket engine design to vehicle system optimization, and has flown aboard a rocket aircraft multiple times while serving as flight test engineer during the development of the XCOR X-Racer.
“Doug Jones is joining DSI at the perfect moment to lead our in-house development of the high-performance propulsion system for our Prospector series of deep space missions,” said Grant Bonin, DSI’s chief technology officer. “We couldn’t be more excited.”

http://deepspaceindustries.com/doug-jones-joins-deep-space-industries/

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #5 on: 03/15/2018 06:08 pm »
SpaceQ interview with Grant Bonin of Deep Space Industries:
http://spaceq.ca/as-revenues-increase-deep-space-industries-gears-up-for-first-asteroid-mission/

They discuss DSI's near term business to provide small sat propulsion solutions, radiation hardened avionics, communications and deep space navigation technology, then the long term goals of exploration and mining.

DSI has seemed to keep a pretty low profile, I was pleasantly surprised to hear about their current business model and projects.
« Last Edit: 03/15/2018 06:16 pm by GWH »

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #6 on: 03/16/2018 01:59 am »
Very informative podcast. DSI have been financing themselves mainly from commercial sales. Water based Comet thruster is one of them. Working on deep space rf comms, navigation and low cost radiation harden electronics.

They target technologies they need for their exploration spacecraft that also has commercial market. Selling water based thrusters also builds a future market for ISRU water to refuel these spacecraft.

The long range plan is build and sell equipment/technology needed for spacing mining, picks and shovels as he puts it.

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #7 on: 03/17/2018 06:02 pm »
Just saw this referenced on twitter but not sure when it was originally posted:

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Deep Space Industries to provide Comet satellite propulsion for Astro Digital

Deep Space Industries announced today that it has signed a contract with Astro Digital to provide several CometTM water-based satellite propulsion systems. Comet is a simple, launch-safe, and cost-effective electrothermal propulsion system that uses water as a propellant and can be customized for nearly any small satellite application.

“We chose DSI’s propulsion solution because of the team’s ability to deliver a unique and relatively large microsat propulsion system on an incredibly aggressive schedule,” explained Chris Biddy, chief executive officer of Astro Digital. “We are quite impressed by the Comet’s scalable nature and ease of integration.”

Comet is unique in that it uses water as propellant. This is especially important for Deep Space Industries’ future asteroid mining plans, as water will be among the first resources mined from asteroids. In the meantime, this propulsion system is efficient, affordable, and easy to use for small satellites that will stay much closer to home, for customers such as Astro Digital.

“Astro Digital is a fantastic organization. We are proud to partner with their team on this and many other projects in the future, “commented Bill Miller, chief executive officer of Deep Space Industries. “Comet has been very successful in the market and we are adding new customers almost monthly at this point.”

About Astro Digital
Astro Digital (AD) is enabling big data analytics from space. We monitor Earth from space with our constellation of multi-spectral Landmapper satellites and a dedicated software platform for imagery analysis and distribution. With a team of engineers, developers and data scientists based on NASA’s Moffett Field, we’re monitoring commercially active land use to model global change and analyze local activity for a variety of business needs. For more information, visit: www.astrodigital.com

About Deep Space Industries
Deep Space Industries (DSI) is dedicated to making space resources available to fuel mankind’s expansion into space.  We are developing a new type of spacecraft, and innovative propulsion technologies that dramatically lower the cost of access to Earth orbit and beyond.  Our first step towards that goal has been to create new propulsion technologies that can extend the life and capabilities of small satellites.  Deep Space Industries is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with offices in Florida, and in Luxembourg.

http://deepspaceindustries.com/deep-space-industries-to-provide-comet-satellite-propulsion-for-astro-digital/

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Comet is a simple, launch-safe, and cost-effective electrothermal propulsion system that uses water as a propellant and offers the ideal balance of cost and performance.

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #8 on: 04/03/2018 05:20 pm »
Deep Space Industries to provide Comet satellite propulsion for BlackSky, LeoStella
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Deep Space Industries (DSI) announced today that it has signed a contract to provide its Comet water-based satellite propulsion systems for the BlackSky Earth observation constellation of smallsats. DSI will provide an initial block of 20 water thrusters for the BlackSky satellites which are scheduled to start launching later this year.

It would be nice if their announcements actually contained a date instead of just saying "today".

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #9 on: 04/03/2018 09:47 pm »
Their rocket motors look interesting. I hope someone with insight can post some more information about Comet (water/electric) and Meteor (non-toxic bi-prop, non-hypergolic(?).

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #10 on: 04/07/2018 02:31 pm »
In the SpaceQ interview he said they have four propulsion systems flying on SSO-A: three for Hawkeye 360 and one for another customer.  I wonder if the other customer is the BlackSky sat since that deal hadn't been announced yet?
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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #11 on: 04/26/2018 06:40 am »
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Space resources company co-founder sets sights on next wave of space startups
by Jeff Foust — April 25, 2018

WASHINGTON — A longtime space advocate is stepping away from the space resources company he helped found more than five years ago and now plans to help develop the next generation of space startups.

http://spacenews.com/space-resources-company-co-founder-sets-sights-on-next-wave-of-space-startups/

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DSI, based in Silicon Valley, announced April 17 raising a Series A round of more than $3.5 million from a group of private investors.

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #12 on: 01/01/2019 10:32 pm »
DSI has been bought by Bradford Industries.

https://twitter.com/GoDeepSpace/status/1080237284644081669

« Last Edit: 01/01/2019 10:42 pm by gongora »

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #13 on: 01/01/2019 11:23 pm »
https://twitter.com/jjaron/status/1080238610908172289

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With this and DSI rival Planetary Resources being bought out by, of all things, a blockchain firm last year, is it fair to say that asteroid mining is basically a non-starter at this point in time?

https://twitter.com/godeepspace/status/1080239303911985152

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #14 on: 01/02/2019 12:41 am »
Valid question, though. Were these guys just a few years too early or is this just not a good idea at all? I think the former.
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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #15 on: 01/02/2019 04:16 am »
Valid question, though. Were these guys just a few years too early or is this just not a good idea at all? I think the former.

I think the big thing is that there were too many missing pieces between here and being able to profitably mine asteroids. A bit one being the lack of current customers that were using materials in-space that could be sourced from asteroids. Take the water/propellant thing--without refuelable rocket stages (even ULA is only lip-service in that realm) or depots, it's kind of hard to take that seriously. And for other raw materials, without people actually manufacturing stuff in space that needs them, most of those also look like a stretch. Now, if we were say 5-10yrs down the road, and depots existed, and at least a few rocket companies were using them, and at least 2-3 companies were starting to do in-space manufactured persistent platforms, then all of the sudden it would both be a) cheaper to access asteroids or the moon to mine them in the first place, and b) there would be a much clearer market for the resulting resources.

So yeah, I think they (and the lunar resource companies like MoonEx) are just premature, not that they'll never be a valid business idea.

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #16 on: 01/02/2019 05:49 am »
And Bradford Industries belong to American Industrial Acquisition Corporation  :o


https://aiac.com/aiac-portfolio-companies/

https://twitter.com/GoDeepSpace/status/1080245219990388736

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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #17 on: 01/02/2019 09:52 am »
Valid question, though. Were these guys just a few years too early or is this just not a good idea at all? I think the former.

I think the big thing is that there were too many missing pieces between here and being able to profitably mine asteroids. A bit one being the lack of current customers that were using materials in-space that could be sourced from asteroids. Take the water/propellant thing--without refuelable rocket stages (even ULA is only lip-service in that realm) or depots, it's kind of hard to take that seriously. And for other raw materials, without people actually manufacturing stuff in space that needs them, most of those also look like a stretch. Now, if we were say 5-10yrs down the road, and depots existed, and at least a few rocket companies were using them, and at least 2-3 companies were starting to do in-space manufactured persistent platforms, then all of the sudden it would both be a) cheaper to access asteroids or the moon to mine them in the first place, and b) there would be a much clearer market for the resulting resources.

So yeah, I think they (and the lunar resource companies like MoonEx) are just premature, not that they'll never be a valid business idea.

~Jon
If there depot in lunar orbit supplied by earth or lunar water then there is market also that same depot can fuel mining vehicles going to asteriods.

NB DSI have water fuel bus capable of 5km/s with 10kg payload. Idea was to market it for smallsats but also use it themselves for asteriod exploration. Bradfords are interested in it for smallsats so it does keep door open for asteriod mining. By selling water based proplusions they are actually creating a market for water in space.




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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #18 on: 01/02/2019 12:33 pm »

NB DSI have water fuel bus capable of 5km/s with 10kg payload. Idea was to market it for smallsats but also use it themselves for asteriod exploration. Bradfords are interested in it for smallsats so it does keep door open for asteriod mining. By selling water based proplusions they are actually creating a market for water in space.

Hydrolox engines also are a market for water, but they require some extra steps, which is why the water as reaction mass engines are so attractive
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Re: Deep Space Industries
« Reply #19 on: 01/02/2019 12:49 pm »
And Bradford Industries belong to American Industrial Acquisition Corporation  :o

https://aiac.com/aiac-portfolio-companies/

From https://aiac.com/

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American Industrial Acquisition Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“AIAC”) is a privately held industrial investment portfolio with a long term mission to build enduring businesses.

Established in 1996, our portfolio consists of 78 manufacturing and distribution sites with over 8,500 employees in 24 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia. Total annual revenues exceed $1.6 billion. We own over 6.5 million square feet of industrial real estate and hold the exclusive, perpetual license to harvest 22 million acres of Canadian timberland.

AIAC has purchased and operated manufacturing units of Ahlstrom, Allegion, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Boeing, Carlyle Group, Constellium, GSK, Jabil Circuit, Johnson Controls, Kodak, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Moog, Northrop Grumman, Novartis, Novelis, Pfizer, Raytheon, The Riverside Company, Sandvik, Siemens, SSC, Tolko, UCB Pharma, United Technologies and other large multinational corporations. In addition to purchasing units of large multinational public companies, AIAC purchases the equity and debt of privately held companies.

Wonder who the owners are ("privately held")

I thought maybe it was one of these "strip and flip" companies but that sounds a bit more reassuring. Note how many units of technology companies (including some space players like Boeing and LockMart) are mentioned...
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