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 ...

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 ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O ...

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 ...

"I think we all know the hope is fading as we continue the mission," AstroForge founder Matt Gialich said in a video update on X early Saturday (March 1). "So we're going to keep our head up.

AstroForge says it’s pressing forward with its goal of mining valuable metals from asteroids, despite a setback in its recent space mission. The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on ...

California startup AstroForge launched its Odin spacecraft on Feb. 26, on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that sent Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission toward the moon. Odin ran into trouble just a ...

The missions are part of AstroForge's plans to make space resources available on Earth. Initially the signs were good for Odin, with AstroForge posting an image of the spacecraft attached to the ...

On February 26, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center, with a payload that included NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer and Astroforge’s Odin. By February 28, both had experienced ...

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 ...