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Making asteroid resources available to fuel the expansion of human activity in space.
Comet™
Water based propulsion system for small satellites
Meteor™
High-thrust green bipropellant propulsion module for satellites
Xplorer™
Multimission low-cost deep space exploration platform
Simulants
Multiple asteroid simulant types are now available
News
DSI Raises $3.5M+ Series A to Fund New Propulsion System and Deep Space Exploration Spacecraft
Deep Space Industries (DSI), a leading space technology company, announced today the closing of the first tranche of its Series A funding round. The company raised just over $3.5M from private investors. The funding will be used to develop Meteor, the company’s new launch-safe bipropellant rocket engine, and continue the ongoing development of the Xplorer spacecraft, the company’s deep space exploration platform scheduled for launch in 2026. Read More…
DSI to provide Comet satellite propulsion for BlackSky, LeoStella
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.Read More…
DSI 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 Comet 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.Read More…
Asteroid Blog
Asteroid Profile: 2017 BS5
An asteroid the size of a football field is headed straight towards us. And it will be here within days. But not to worry because 2017 BS5 will pass by Earth at a safe yet cosmically-snug gap of just 3.15 lunar distances (roughly 756,000 miles). Discovered this February, 2017 BS5 is one of five near-Earth asteroids with close approaches the folks at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab have their eye on. Read More…
Asteroid Profile: 101955 Bennu
It’s called Bennu. And scientists have been waiting for a long time to get their hands on it. Scheduled for a September 8 launch, NASA is set to embark on the first asteroid sample return mission in its history. Their deep space explorer, OSIRIS-REx, is the third spacecraft in NASA’s New Frontiers Program. The other two include the wildly successful New Horizons mission to Pluto last year, and spacecraft Juno’s historic long-term orbit of Jupiter which began in August. Read More…
Asteroids are cold, dead worlds
As mankind endeavors to open the frontier of space, and companies like Deep Space Industries prepare for asteroid mining missions in the next few years, concerns about environmental impact are being raised. So we asked Dr. John S. Lewis, chief scientist at DSI, about the realities of asteroid environments and the impact human activities will have on our near-Earth orbital companions. Read More…
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