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Hope is all but lost for private asteroid probe in deep space — 'the chance of talking with Odin is minimal'
AstroForge says there's no real hope of reestablishing contact with its Odin probe, the first private spacecraft ever to fly ...
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Asteroid Mining Startup Loses Its Spacecraft Somewhere Beyond the Moon
California-based startup AstroForge launched its Odin spacecraft on February 26 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The probe was headed toward a small asteroid to scan it for valuable metals ...
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1st private spacecraft to attempt to travel beyond the moon appears to be in trouble
Odin, a small spacecraft built by U.S. space mining company AstroForge, piggybacked on the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday (Feb. 26) that sent the private Intuitive Machines ...
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First-Ever Asteroid Mining Mission Loses Contact With Earth
Last week, California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed was the first "commercial deep space mission in history." The company's plan was to send its washing machine-sized ...
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A tiny spacecraft is poised to launch on an unprecedented deep-space mission. The CEO behind it is ‘terrified’
The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious metals in space, and he is all too aware that success is not guaranteed.And, quite ...
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Hope is all but lost for private asteroid probe in deep space — 'the chance of talking with Odin is minimal'
AstroForge has been very busy since its founding in 2022. The company launched its first spacecraft, a cubesat called Brokkr-1, on a Falcon 9 in April 2023 to test prototype refinery technology.