The Small Country of Luxembourg Announces Big Plans for Asteroid Mining | #Space #Europe  | Luxembourg (Europe) | Scoop.it
Anyone who was doubting Luxembourg’s resolve to become the space mining capital of the world will need to rethink that opinion. It is the little engine that can. The country’s government announced today an extensive new partnership with asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries that will seek to advance the research and development of new technologies for use of mining operations in outer space.

In the short term, this means investing more money and resources toward Prospector-X, DSI’s initiative to develop an experimental spacecraft that can successfully test technological mechanisms that would go into mining asteroids.