Deep Space Industries, Inc. (DSI) was founded to pursue asteroid mining but has more recently focused on smallsats. In January 2019, it was announced that Deep Space Industries - DSI - had been acquired by Bradford Space - another space technology company. DSI had been organized around opening deep space for business, building advanced spacecraft technology to propel the worldâs first private missions to deep space. The firm provides technical resources, capabilities, and system integration required to discover, harvest, process, and market in-space resources. The companyâs mission is to produce water, propellant, and building materials to serve markets in space, from extending the life and capabilities of commercial satellites to providing life support and power to new private-sector orbiting research stations. The company continues to work on its rocket engine and on the ongoing development of its deep space exploration platform scheduled for launch in 2020. The firm's suite of technologies including MeteorTM, a new launch-safe bi-propellant rocket engine to be released later in 2018, and the XplorerTM spacecraft, a deep space exploration platform scheduled for launch in 2020. With offices in Florida and Luxembourg, during 2018 the firm announced two significant contracts for its current water-based CometTM propulsion systems for small satellite
