Planetary Resources, a startup company that aims to scout out near-Earth asteroids containing precious minerals and mine them in space, on Wednesday announced it had reached a deal with Virgin Galactic, billionaire UK entrerpeneur Richard Branson‘s spacefaring company, in which Virgin Galactic will launch Planetary Resource’s first line of telescopes into orbit using a new vehicle called LauncherOne.
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