We may not be in an age of asteroid mining (yet), but asteroid prospecting has come a step closer as Planetary Resources announces that its Arkyd-6 satellite has successfully reached orbit. The six-unit CubeSat lifted off on Friday from the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Satish Dhawan Space Center in Southern India atop a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) as a secondary payload. The unmanned spacecraft is designed as a technology demonstrator for key components of a future asteroid survey craft, Arkyd-301.
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