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The Asteroid Mining Company
Peter Marquez, Vice President for Global Engagement
March 2015
Peter Marquez
Vice President, Global Engagement
pmarquez@planetaryresources.com
resources@planetaryresources.com
@interplanetary www.planetaryresources.com
Huge Problem
Access to Resources is the Rate Limiting Step of Our Species
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Challenge-1: PGM Scarcity & Pricing
Air pollution from cars is
solvable by platinum-
intensive technologies
PGM’s are
‘siderophilic’ (iron loving)
metals that sank to Earth’s
core during formation.
PGM demand is going to triple in 30 years at constant PGM price
*US Dept of Energy funded study by TIAX. Scenarios based on 80% and 50% fuel cell vehicle market
penetration by 2050. http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/pdfs/tiax_platinum.pdf
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Challenge-2: Fuel in Space is Expensive
$2–3 Billion
=
LEO GEO
Annual market today
$4M / ton Cost to reach GEO $20M / ton
x10
Expected growth
to $20-30 Billion in the
next 10 years
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Vision
Advancing Technologies open new frontiers, and
unlock access to resources once seen as “impossible”
to harvest economically:
Ø Hall-Heroult process ! Aluminum boom
Ø Hydraulic Fracturing ! Shale natural gas boom
Ø Deep-water Drilling! Deep sea oil boom
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Once the rarest metal on Earth,
was actually the most abundant.
(made accessible by technology in 1886)
Once inaccessible, information, education, and water are becoming abundant.
So will the resources of space. 6
Technology has a history of unlocking resources
Space Resources made accessible by Planetary Resources
“State-of-the-Art”: $1 Billion Arkyd “Space Drone”: $5 Million
300,000 Part count 300 Part count
Workforce of 1,000 engineers Workforce of 40 engineers
“One of a kind”, single craft Mass produced, swarm spacecraft
Uses Deep Space Network High bandwidth laser comm
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>90% built in-house
Market – Why Asteroids? Why Now?
1. Our knowledge about asteroids is recent
2. 4,000 asteroids are closer than the Moon
3. Planetary has identified the best 11 asteroids
4. These asteroids are Trillion Dollar assets today
• Fuels
• Construction Metals
• Platinum Group Metals
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Planetary Resources’ Business Strategy:
1. Develop and demonstrate 4 key enabling
technologies;
2. Build a service-based company that is able to
serve near-term, robust markets;
3. Partner with key multinational companies to
claim the most valuable real-estate in the solar
system
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PRI’s BOLD mission drives innovation in
four key technology areas:
1 2 3 4
Laser Infrared Autonomous Swarm 3D Printed
Communications Sensors Software Propulsion
No Deep Space Network; High Detection of water-ice Reduction of 15,000 parts into
Reliability in deep-space
bandwidth signature 15 parts
Multi&Functional,Optical,Subsystem,Enabling,Optical,Communication,on,Small,Satellites,
,
ARKYD,ASTRONAUTICS,,INC., , , Proposal,No:,T4.01&9919, ,
A,PLANETARY,RESOURCES,COMPANY, , , ,
Figure!2.4:!Arkyd!Optical!Communications!Testbed!Facility
Each of these four key Technology areas is able
to drive large, near-term revenues independent
Figure!2.5:!Testbed!Tip/Tilt!Assembly
of the Asteroid Prospecting.
Task!3:!Establish!proof@of@concept!for!ExoplanetSat@derived!stabilization!and!correction!concept!
Task,3,represented,the,keystone,of,the,Phase,I,work,effort,,and,combined,the,talents,of,both,Arkyd,and,
MIT,personnel,in,its,execution.,The,bulk,of,the,activity,centered,around,two,test,periods,,the,first,in,
October,2012,and,the,second,in,early,January,2013.,The,purpose,of,the,effort,was,to,demonstrate,that,
the,image,correction,algorithms,originally,created,for,ExoplanetSat,could,be,improved,in,accuracy,and,
correction,rate,sufficiently,to,be,relevant,to,a,deep,space,optical,communications,implementation.,
Based,on,an,assessment,of,the,required,pointing,precision,required,to,stabilize,a,downlink,
communications,signal,over,a,1,&,2,AU,interplanetary,distance,,the,following,success,criteria,was,
selected,to,evaluate,the,system’s,performance,against:
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, , , , , , , , , , , ,,,,,,Page,10,of,47,PRI’s BOLD mission drives innovation in
four key technology areas:
1 2 3 4
Laser Infrared Autonomous Swarm 3D Printed
Communications Sensors Software Propulsion
No Deep Space Network; High Detection of water-ice Reduction of 15,000 parts into
Reliability in deep-space
bandwidth signature 15 parts
Multi&Functional,Optical,Subsystem,Enabling,Optical,Communication,on,Small,Satellites,
,
ARKYD,ASTRONAUTICS,,INC., , , Proposal,No:,T4.01&9919, ,
A,PLANETARY,RESOURCES,COMPANY, , , ,
Figure!2.4:!Arkyd!Optical!Communications!Testbed!Facility
These four technologies offer robust near-term markets for PRI:
A B C D
Components & Space Situational Asteroid
Space Sensor Drones
Software Figure!2.5:!Testbed!Tip/Tilt!Assembly Awareness Prospecting
Task!3:!Establish!proof@of@concept!for!ExoplanetSat@derived!stabilization!and!correction!concept!
Market: $100s Millions
Task,3,represented,the,keystone,of,the,Phase,I,work,effort,,and,combined,the,talents,of,both,Arkyd,and, Market: $ Billions Market: $10s Billions Market: $100s Billions
MIT,personnel,in,its,execution.,The,bulk,of,the,activity,centered,around,two,test,periods,,the,first,in,
October,2012,and,the,second,in,early,January,2013.,The,purpose,of,the,effort,was,to,demonstrate,that,
the,image,correction,algorithms,originally,created,for,ExoplanetSat,could,be,improved,in,accuracy,and,
correction,rate,sufficiently,to,be,relevant,to,a,deep,space,optical,communications,implementation.,
Based,on,an,assessment,of,the,required,pointing,precision,required,to,stabilize,a,downlink,
communications,signal,over,a,1,&,2,AU,interplanetary,distance,,the,following,success,criteria,was,
selected,to,evaluate,the,system’s,performance,against:
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, , , , , , , , , , , ,,,,,,Page,10,of,47,Arkyd Technology/Launch Roadmap
2015 2016 2017 2018
Core Tech Demos Instrument Capability Demo Asteroid Mission 1st Customer Prospecting
Two Launches in 2015: Arkyd-100: first deep- Arkyd-200: deep-space Arkyd-300: First
Arkyd-3: Q1 2015 Launch space capable vehicle demonstration prospecting and claim
Arkyd-6: Q3 2015 Launch
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Phase I Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4
(today)
$ 100’s billions
Prospecting Data Harvest Best
Low Cost Space Infrared Data and
to Claim Best Real Resources in Solar
Systems Optical Relay
Estate in Space System
$ 10’s billions
$ 1’s billions
$300 million
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Eric Anderson Peter Diamandis
Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and CEO Co-Founder and Co-Chairman
● The entrepreneur widely credited with starting the commercial ● Pioneer in the commercial space arena, having co-founded Space
human spaceflight industry. As CEO and Co-founder of Space Adventures, Zero-G and International Space University
Adventures, sold $700M in commercial spaceflights ● Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation and the Executive
● Served as Chairman of Commercial Spaceflight Federation Chairman of Singularity University
● Magna cum laude with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the ● Engineering degrees from MIT, MD from Harvard
University of Virginia ● Author of New York Times best seller ABUNDANCE
Chris Lewicki Chris Voorhees
President and Chief Engineer VP of Spacecraft Development
● First JPL flight director under 30 ● NASA JPL Lead Mechanical Engineer
● Led the two most successful missions to Mars in NASA’s history ● Curiosity Rover Chief Engineer
● First driver of Spirit and Opportunity rovers ● Led team that assembled Spirit Mars Rover
● Mission manager for the Phoenix Lander, a third half-billion dollar ● Designer of Spirit/Opportunity Mobility (wheels)
mission to Mars ● Designer of first subsurface penetrator and soil drill for Mars
● NASA’s Highest Honor for Excellence, twice ● NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Award
● Asteroid 13609 Lewicki named in his honor ● NASA’s Exceptional Engineering Achievement Award
+ 30 top/world-class
Senior engineering professionals
Leadership from JPL, Intel, SpaceX,
Google, and other silicon
Joe Landon Peter Marquez Frank Mycroft Peter Illsley Ray Ramadorai Marc Allen
Chief Financial Officer VP of Global Engagement VP of Strategy Principal Mechanical Engineer Principal Avionics Engineer Principal Software Engineer
valley companies
HBS / Boeing Satellites US Space Policy Director HBS/Stanford/McKinsey JPL Lead Integration Engineer Intel Core i7 Architect JPL Flight Software Engineer
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World Class Investor Team as I did in the early days of Google.
—Ram Shriram
STRATEGIC INVESTORS
Additive manufacturing Investing space as the next high-
spacecraft structures growth construction market
Eric Schmidt H. Ross Perot, Jr Larry Page 3D Systems (DDD) Bechtel Corporation
Google Chairman Hillwood Group Chairman Google CEO Avi Reichental, CEO Riley Bechtel, Chairman
VENTURE INVESTORS
Ram Shriram Charles Simonyi Richard Branson
Google Founding Investor Chief Architect, Microsoft Virgin Group Chairman
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