The Asteroid Mining Company Peter Marquez Vice President for Global Engagement March 2015 Peter Marquez Vice President Global Engagement pmarquez@planetaryresources.com @interplanetary resources@planetaryresources.com www.planetaryresources.com
Huge Problem Access to Resources is the Rate Limiting Step of Our Species
Challenge-1: PGM Scarcity & Pricing Air pollution from cars is solvable by platinumintensive technologies PGM s are siderophilic (iron loving) metals that sank to Earth s core during formation. PGM demand is going to triple in 30 years at constant PGM price *US Dept of Energy funded study by TIAX. Scenarios based on 80% and 50% fuel cell vehicle market penetration by 2050. http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/pdfs/tiax_platinum.pdf
Challenge-2: Fuel in Space is Expensive LEO $4M / ton GEO Cost to reach GEO $20M / ton = $2 3 Billion Annual market today x10 Expected growth to $20-30 Billion in the next 10 years
Vision Advancing Technologies open new frontiers and unlock access to resources once seen as impossible to harvest economically: Ø Hall-Heroult process! Aluminum boom Ø Hydraulic Fracturing! Shale natural gas boom Ø Deep-water Drilling! Deep sea oil boom
Once the rarest metal on Earth was actually the most abundant. (made accessible by technology in 1886) Once inaccessible information education and water are becoming abundant. So will the resources of space. 6
Technology has a history of unlocking resources Space Resources made accessible by Planetary Resources State-of-the-Art : $1 Billion Arkyd Space Drone : $5 Million 300000 Part count Workforce of 1000 engineers One of a kind single craft Uses Deep Space Network 300 Part count Workforce of 40 engineers Mass produced swarm spacecraft High bandwidth laser comm >90% built in-house
Market Why Asteroids? Why Now? 1. Our knowledge about asteroids is recent 2. 4000 asteroids are closer than the Moon 3. Planetary has identified the best 11 asteroids 4. These asteroids are Trillion Dollar assets today Fuels Construction Metals Platinum Group Metals
Planetary Resources Business Strategy: 1. Develop and demonstrate 4 key enabling technologies; 2. Build a service-based company that is able to serve near-term robust markets; 3. Partner with key multinational companies to claim the most valuable real-estate in the solar system
1 PRI s BOLD mission drives innovation in four key technology areas: 2 Laser Communications No Deep Space Network; High bandwidth Multi&FunctionalOpticalSubsystemEnablingOpticalCommunicationonSmallSatellites ARKYDASTRONAUTICSINC. ProposalNo:T4.01&9919 APLANETARYRESOURCESCOMPANY 3 Infrared Sensors Detection of water-ice signature Autonomous Swarm Software Reliability in deep-space 4 3D Printed Propulsion Reduction of 15000 parts into 15 parts Figure!2.4:!Arkyd!Optical!Communications!Testbed!Facility Each of these four key Technology areas is able to drive large near-term revenues independent of the Asteroid Prospecting. Figure!2.5:!Testbed!Tip/Tilt!Assembly Task!3:!Establish!proof@of@concept!for!ExoplanetSat@derived!stabilization!and!correction!concept! Task3representedthekeystoneofthePhaseIworkeffortandcombinedthetalentsofbothArkydand MITpersonnelinitsexecution.Thebulkoftheactivitycenteredaroundtwotestperiodsthefirstin October2012andthesecondinearlyJanuary2013.Thepurposeoftheeffortwastodemonstratethat theimagecorrectionalgorithmsoriginallycreatedforexoplanetsatcouldbeimprovedinaccuracyand correctionratesufficientlytoberelevanttoadeepspaceopticalcommunicationsimplementation. Basedonanassessmentoftherequiredpointingprecisionrequiredtostabilizeadownlink communicationssignalovera1&2auinterplanetarydistancethefollowingsuccesscriteriawas selectedtoevaluatethesystem sperformanceagainst: Page10of47 Page10of47
PRI s BOLD mission drives innovation in four key technology areas: 1 2 Laser Communications No Deep Space Network; High bandwidth Multi&FunctionalOpticalSubsystemEnablingOpticalCommunicationonSmallSatellites ARKYDASTRONAUTICSINC. ProposalNo:T4.01&9919 APLANETARYRESOURCESCOMPANY 3 Infrared Sensors Autonomous Swarm Software Detection of water-ice signature 4 3D Printed Propulsion Reduction of 15000 parts into 15 parts Reliability in deep-space Figure!2.4:!Arkyd!Optical!Communications!Testbed!Facility A These four technologies offer robust near-term markets for PRI: B Components & Software Space Situational Awareness Figure!2.5:!Testbed!Tip/Tilt!Assembly Task!3:!Establish!proof@of@concept!for!ExoplanetSat@derived!stabilization!and!correction!concept! Market: $100s Millions Market: $ Billions Task3representedthekeystoneofthePhaseIworkeffortandcombinedthetalentsofbothArkydand MITpersonnelinitsexecution.Thebulkoftheactivitycenteredaroundtwotestperiodsthefirstin October2012andthesecondinearlyJanuary2013.Thepurposeoftheeffortwastodemonstratethat theimagecorrectionalgorithmsoriginallycreatedforexoplanetsatcouldbeimprovedinaccuracyand correctionratesufficientlytoberelevanttoadeepspaceopticalcommunicationsimplementation. Basedonanassessmentoftherequiredpointingprecisionrequiredtostabilizeadownlink communicationssignalovera1&2auinterplanetarydistancethefollowingsuccesscriteriawas selectedtoevaluatethesystem sperformanceagainst: Page10of47 C D Space Sensor Drones Market: $10s Billions Page10of47 Asteroid Prospecting Market: $100s Billions
Arkyd Technology/Launch Roadmap 2015 Core Tech Demos 2016 Instrument Capability 2017 Demo Asteroid Mission 2018 1 st Customer Prospecting Two Launches in 2015: Arkyd-3: Q1 2015 Launch Arkyd-6: Q3 2015 Launch Arkyd-100: first deepspace capable vehicle Arkyd-200: deep-space demonstration Arkyd-300: First prospecting and claim
Company Valuation Growth Phase I (today) Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 $ 100 s billions Low Cost Space Systems Infrared Data and Optical Relay Prospecting Data to Claim Best Real Estate in Space Harvest Best Resources in Solar System $ 10 s billions $300 million $ 1 s billions
Team Eric Anderson Co-Founder Co-Chairman and CEO The entrepreneur widely credited with starting the commercial human spaceflight industry. As CEO and Co-founder of Space Adventures sold $700M in commercial spaceflights Served as Chairman of Commercial Spaceflight Federation Magna cum laude with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia Chris Lewicki President and Chief Engineer First JPL flight director under 30 Led the two most successful missions to Mars in NASA s history First driver of Spirit and Opportunity rovers Mission manager for the Phoenix Lander a third half-billion dollar mission to Mars NASA s Highest Honor for Excellence twice Asteroid 13609 Lewicki named in his honor Peter Diamandis Co-Founder and Co-Chairman Pioneer in the commercial space arena having co-founded Space Adventures Zero-G and International Space University Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation and the Executive Chairman of Singularity University Engineering degrees from MIT MD from Harvard Author of New York Times best seller ABUNDANCE Chris Voorhees VP of Spacecraft Development NASA JPL Lead Mechanical Engineer Curiosity Rover Chief Engineer Led team that assembled Spirit Mars Rover Designer of Spirit/Opportunity Mobility (wheels) Designer of first subsurface penetrator and soil drill for Mars NASA s Exceptional Achievement Award NASA s Exceptional Engineering Achievement Award Senior Leadership Joe Landon Chief Financial Officer HBS / Boeing Satellites Peter Marquez VP of Global Engagement US Space Policy Director Frank Mycroft Peter Illsley Ray Ramadorai Marc Allen VP of Strategy Principal Mechanical Engineer Principal Avionics Engineer Principal Software Engineer HBS/Stanford/McKinsey JPL Lead Integration Engineer Intel Core i7 Architect JPL Flight Software Engineer + 30 top/world-class engineering professionals from JPL Intel SpaceX Google and other silicon valley companies
World Class Investor Team I see the same potential in Planetary Resources as I did in the early days of Google. Ram Shriram STRATEGIC INVESTORS Eric Schmidt Google Chairman H. Ross Perot Jr Hillwood Group Chairman Larry Page Google CEO Additive manufacturing spacecraft structures 3D Systems (DDD) Avi Reichental CEO Investing space as the next highgrowth construction market Bechtel Corporation Riley Bechtel Chairman VENTURE INVESTORS Ram Shriram Google Founding Investor Charles Simonyi Chief Architect Microsoft Richard Branson Virgin Group Chairman