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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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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 ...
Futurism10d
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 ...
Space.com13d
'I think we all know that hope is fading.' Private Odin asteroid probe is tumbling in space
The spacecraft, called Odin, launched atop a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday (Feb. 26) on a mission to fly by the small asteroid 2022 OB5 for AstroForge, a company that aims to eventually mine the ...
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Failure is an option. Here's why some new space ventures go sideways
It's been a "sub-nominal" few days in the spaceflight realm. California startup AstroForge announced that its deep space probe, Odin was all but doomed after it lost contact with controllers.
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Asteroid exploration probably failed - Odin probe staggers through space
But it looks like the mission has failed. AstroForge has lost contact with Odin. "Right now, Odin is still out there, and we're still trying to talk to it," writes AstroForge CEO Matt Gialich in a ...
ExtremeTech10d
Scientists Struggle to Communicate With 2 Spacecraft Launched Wednesday
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, which aims to map the Moon's water cycle, and AstroForge's Odin, which will analyze an asteroid's potential metal content, have both failed to transmit consistent data to ...