that it's just under 100 days away from launching a spacecraft designed to study an asteroid potentially worth $10 quintillion.
Known as 16 Psyche, the 173-mile-wide asteroid is thought to be made up of gold, iron, and nickel. Its ore has been estimated to be worth around $10,000,000,000,000,000,000. In 2020, NASA announced afrom celestial bodies, through the 2015 US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act. And firms have already sprung up to test technology that could theoretically make this work.
Once there, the satellite will orbit the asteroid for 26 months, studying and photographing the body for its history and mineral composition.
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