The first spacecraft proposed by Deep Space is the 25 kg FireFly, is designed to search for suitable asteroids for mining. Constructed using inexpensive CubeSat components, FireFly is projected to fly in 2015, sharing rockets with much larger communications satellites in order to reduce costs.
DSI's second planned satellite, known as the DragonFly, is predicted by the company to launch starting in 2016 to bring up to 150 kilograms of asteroid material to the Earth's surface.
By 2023, DSI hopes to begin actively mining asteroids for their metals and water. Water may be reconstituted into hydrogen.Precious metals such as platinum-group metals mined from the asteroids may be brought to Earth for further processing and sale, while other metals could be used to create large communications platforms or space solar power plants.
DSI has propsed a way to manufacture spacecraft and other things in low gravity so that the cost of space travel would be reduced and things could be manufactured more effeciently. Their foundry is similar to a 3-d printer but on a larger scale. They use raw materials that they mine from their asteroids.