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Minerals are in short supply on Earth. This startup wants to mine asteroids
Last April, AstroForge launched its inaugural mission, called Brokkr-1, sending a miniature satellite equipped with a refinery system about the size of two loaves of bread into space. The ...
The New York Times18d
Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
Success is not guaranteed. AstroForge’s first mission, Brokkr-1, was launched into low-Earth orbit in April 2023 to test the company’s planned asteroid refining technology. But the mission ...
CNN15d
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 ... pharmaceuticals and petroleum refining. The plan is audacious, Gialich acknowledged. Two other aerospace ...
Futurism9d
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 ...
Gizmodo7d
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 ...
Space.com7d
Hope is all but lost for private asteroid probe in deep space — 'the chance of talking with Odin is minimal'
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 ...
Space.com13d
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 ...
heise online13d
Space mining: AstroForge sends exploration probe to an asteroid
This is "a pretty incredible journey," writes AstroForge CEO Matt Gialich in a ... developed spacecraft traveled as far into the solar system as is planned for Odin. Odin to reach OB5 in December ...
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A tiny spacecraft is poised to launch on an unprecedented deep-space mission. The CEO behind it is ‘terrified’
a future AstroForge mission may aim to extract, refine and ferry the material back to Earth — where platinum is costly and used in various industries including electronics, pharmaceuticals and ...