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        美公司擬派機(jī)器人太空開(kāi)礦 卡梅隆加入

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        美公司擬派機(jī)器人太空開(kāi)礦 卡梅隆加入

        Eric Anderson, co-founder and co-chairman of Planetary Resources, speaks at a news conference at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington April 24, 2012.(Agencies)

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        Google Inc executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and filmmaker James Cameron are among those bankrolling a venture to survey and eventually extract precious metals and rare minerals from asteroids that orbit near Earth, the company said on Tuesday.

        Planetary Resources, based in Bellevue, Washington, initially will focus on developing and selling extremely low-cost robotic spacecraft for surveying missions.

        A demonstration mission in orbit around Earth is expected to be launched within two years, said company co-founders Peter Diamandis and Eric Anderson.

        Planetary Resources' aim is to open deep-space exploration to private industry, much like the $10 million Ansari X Prize competition, which Diamandis created.

        Planetary Resources' first customers are likely to be science agencies, such as NASA, as well as private research institutes.

        Within five to 10 years, however, the company expects to progress from selling observation platforms in orbit around Earth to prospecting services. It plans to tap some of the thousands of asteroids that pass relatively close to Earth and extract their raw materials.

        Not all missions would return precious metals and minerals to Earth. In addition to mining for platinum and other precious metals, the company plans to tap asteroids' water to supply orbiting fuel depots, which could be used by NASA and others for robotic and human space missions.

        "We have a long view. We're not expecting this company to be an overnight financial home run. This is going to take time," Anderson said.

        Planetary Resources declined to discuss specifics about how and when asteroid mining would begin. A 30-meter long (98-foot) asteroid can hold as much as $25 billion to $50 billion worth of platinum at today's prices, Diamandis said.

        The company's first step is to develop technologies to cut the cost of deep-space robotic probes to one-tenth to one-hundredth the cost of current space missions, which run hundreds of millions of dollars, Diamandis said.

        (Read by Nelly Min. Nelly Min is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)

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        行星資源集團(tuán)本周二公布了一項(xiàng)到近地小行星進(jìn)行勘探,并最終開(kāi)采貴重金屬和稀有礦產(chǎn)的計(jì)劃。谷歌公司高管拉里?佩奇和埃里克?施密特、以及著名導(dǎo)演詹姆斯-卡梅隆等人都加入了這項(xiàng)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資。

        這家公司的總部位于華盛頓貝爾維尤,最初將著眼于研發(fā)并出售價(jià)格極其低廉的機(jī)器人宇宙飛船,用于勘探調(diào)查任務(wù)。

        該公司聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人彼得-迪曼蒂斯和埃里克-安德森說(shuō),行星資源集團(tuán)預(yù)計(jì)兩年內(nèi)在近地軌道開(kāi)展首次示范任務(wù)。

        該公司的目標(biāo)是在私人企業(yè)中開(kāi)展外層空間勘測(cè)業(yè)務(wù),就如同迪曼蒂斯發(fā)起的獎(jiǎng)金高達(dá)一千萬(wàn)美元的安薩里X-Prize大獎(jiǎng)賽。

        該公司的首位客戶(hù)很可能是科學(xué)機(jī)構(gòu),比如美國(guó)宇航局,以及私人研究機(jī)構(gòu)。

        但該公司計(jì)劃在10年內(nèi)將業(yè)務(wù)從出售近地軌道觀測(cè)平臺(tái)發(fā)展到探礦服務(wù),并計(jì)劃開(kāi)發(fā)數(shù)萬(wàn)顆近地小行星中的一部分,開(kāi)采其中的稀有礦藏。

        并非所有的任務(wù)都會(huì)帶貴重金屬和礦產(chǎn)回地球。除了開(kāi)采白金和其它貴重金屬外,該公司還計(jì)劃開(kāi)采小行星中的水資源,來(lái)供應(yīng)軌道燃料補(bǔ)給站,美國(guó)宇航局和其它機(jī)構(gòu)都可以利用這些補(bǔ)給站進(jìn)行機(jī)器人進(jìn)行的和載人的航天任務(wù)。

        安德森說(shuō):“我們目光長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)。我們并不期待公司能一夜暴富。這需要時(shí)間。”

        該公司拒絕討論有關(guān)小行星采礦如何開(kāi)展、以及何時(shí)開(kāi)展等細(xì)節(jié)問(wèn)題。迪曼蒂斯說(shuō),按如今的價(jià)格計(jì)算,一個(gè)直徑30米(98英寸)的小行星可能含有最多價(jià)值250億美元至500億美元的白金。

        他還表示,該公司的第一步計(jì)劃是研發(fā)能夠削減外層機(jī)器人探測(cè)費(fèi)用的技術(shù),將費(fèi)用削減至目前高達(dá)數(shù)億美元的航空任務(wù)成本的1/10至1/100。

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        Vocabulary:

        bankroll: 提供資金,資助

        prospecting: 探礦,勘探

        depot: 補(bǔ)給站,倉(cāng)庫(kù)

         

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