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Pioneering Space Company Plans Daring Asteroid Capture Mission
March 18, 2026
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A private space company in Los Angeles has unveiled a novel plan to retrieve a near-Earth asteroid and transform it into a research hub for materials processing and manufacturing in space.
A Los Angeles-based space company, TransAstra, has unveiled an ambitious and innovative plan to capture a small near-Earth asteroid and bring it back to a safe location near our planet. According to the company's CEO, Joel Sercel, they have secured funding from an unnamed customer to study the feasibility of their proposed
Source: Ars Technica
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