Matt Gialich
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Right on.
Right on.
So how far along are you in the process to mining asteroids?
We are getting ready for our next mission.
Next mission is called Vestry.
Vestry is a 200-kilogram spacecraft.
For a deep spacecraft, by the way, that's extremely small on relative terms.
And that will go out and do a landing on one of these metal asteroids.
So that's targeted to launch next year.
No kidding.
The following year, we will send, essentially, Vestry Part 2.
It'll be the same overall spacecraft, but we'll add the refinery to it and return capability.
And we'll go out, mine the asteroid, and bring it back to Earth.
So the first one, what is the mission of the first one?
So the first one, well, the first mission we launched, the first planetary mission we launched was one called Odin.
We launched that in February.
That was our first commercial attempt to go to deep space.
February of this year?
February of this year.
Smaller spacecraft went out.