Matt Gialich

What could we do?

And we're actually able to like, not just destroy the spacecraft by going into some random dirt.

They backed up, they re-went around it.

They re-thought about it and were able to still grab a sample and complete the mission.

Cypress Rex returned a sample about a year ago now that came back in a small capsule to be recovered.

I think we recently opened it up.

It was really difficult for us to open for some reason.

But so we understand the physics to all this.

There isn't some like physics barrier we have to get past to mine an asteroid.

This is simply, can we do it cheaper and economically to make it work?

So-

No.

In fact, the metal and the way we do it with ring magnets is the platinum group metals flow up through the middle of the spacecraft and essentially are trapped in a very small mylar bag.

This isn't a lot of volume to bring back.

If you think about it, platinum group metals are some of the most densest elements on Earth.

It's a third of a meter cubed.

It's not a big amount of material.

Did you say it's 1,000 kg?

1,000 kg is a third of a meter cubed of PGMs.

It's not a lot of volume.