Talk:Deep Space Industries

Inaccuracies
The article states:

"Whether Deep Space Industries would be competing in similar services as Planetary Resources has also been questioned. In particular, Planetary Resources has wealthy and influential sponsors such as Eric Schmidt and Larry Page and has not released information on their intentions for processing, power generation, or in-space manufacturing hardware and equipment."

This is not true. At a "solve for x" conference, both Peter Diamandis and Eric Anderson spoke at length on this issue. The link to the presentation can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVzR0kzklRE In the presentation they state that photovoltaic cells will be used for power, that asteroids will be heated to cook off all volatile elements to leave the Platinum class elements as ore, that they would process the platinum class of materials by direct heating of them into shapes like "wiffle balls", and will be de-orbited by free fall to a desert site and that they will not require on-orbit metallurgy or processing other than the heating stated.

Various information about Planetary Resources has been removed. It belongs on that company's profile, not here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.167.72.11 (talk) 00:16, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

174.131.5.205 (talk) 00:38, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Location?
Does anyone know the actual location of Deep Space Industries? It may be that they don't have one, of course; it is now possible to run a completely decentralized company -- at least until you have a factory -- but I would imagine that they must have a mailing address, even if it is just a PO box. --Guy Macon (talk) 12:06, 23 January 2013 (UTC)


 * The press conference said they would have a presence in the Washington DC area (David Gump) with no shop space, and that the shop space and development lab location was not yet selected, but Houston, Texas or some part of California (LA area or bay area, I don't recall) were the leading candidates for their satellite develop/build/test/facility. Cheers.  N2e (talk) 13:20, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Their website now says "Deep Space Industries Corporate Headquarters, P.O. Box 67, Moffett Field, CA 94035, United States of America" [//deepspaceindustries.com/contact] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.167.72.11 (talk) 00:14, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

space and asteroid "ownership", "taking", "claiming"
seems the UN already has some treaties about outer space. the true property interests of this space business, if any, are not clear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.84.95.229  (talk • contribs)   01:38, 24 January 2013‎  (UTC)


 * Nor is it clear whether the UN has jurisdiction. See Space law and Metalaw. --Guy Macon (talk) 02:09, 24 January 2013 (UTC)


 * This Talk page is about improving the article, not for general internet discussion. If you have ideas about improving the article, and have verifiable sources to back it up, then by all means, be bold and make an edit to the article; or suggest it here and see if you can gain consensus.  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 05:05, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Sources for article improvement
Here are a set of links to both space press and mainstream press with reaction after the public announcement of Deep Space Industries: Cheers. N2e (talk) 16:15, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Microgravity 3D printing in a nickel-charged gas medium - Michael Mealling/Rocketforge
 * Asteroid-mining company seeks $20 million in funding. - latimes.com
 * Deep Space Industries' lofty asteroid ambitions face high financial hurdles - Cosmic Log
 * New Asteroid Mining Company Aims to Manufacture Products in Space - Wired Science/Wired.com
 * Deep Space Industries Joins Ranks of Asteroid Seeking Companies - SpacePolicyOnline.com
 * Mining asteroids to 3D-print space stations: Beyond pie in the sky? New startup Deep Space Industries has big plans for those big floating space rocks in the next 10 years. Crave's Eric Mack searches for a new superlative to describe the effort. - Crave/CNET
 * New venture 'to mine asteroids' - BBC
 * I added material where possible, but many sources seem to be redundant of each other. Wer900 • talk 03:01, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Purchase by Bradford Space
This appears in the intro, but nowhere else in the article. The rest of the article is still written as if DSI was a going concern. -- PaulxSA (talk) 07:06, 31 May 2020 (UTC)