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 ...
Orange County Business Journal2d
AstroForge’s Odin Likely Lost in Space
The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...
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 ...
Futurism9d
First-Ever Asteroid Mining Mission Loses Contact With Earth
But mere hours after the spacecraft lifted off atop a SpaceX rocket last week — alongside Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander — the AstroForge team encountered issues while trying to ...
Elon Musk fires rocket at asteroid - but the mission isn't what you might expect
The probe, known as Odin, is set to travel into deep space to make a pass by of an asteroid known as 2022 OB5 to detect if it ...
Yahoo News Australia6d
The first private asteroid mission probe is probably lost in deep space
California startup AstroForge launched a spacecraft dubbed Odin on February 26, but the team lost communication with it shortly after its launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. "The chance of talking ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org4d
Failure is an option. Here's why some new space ventures go sideways
California startup AstroForge announced that its deep space ... unexpected disassembly," scattering rocket debris over Florida. This marks SpaceX's second catastrophic failure in just seven ...
Yahoo6d
Hope is all but lost for private asteroid probe in deep space — 'the chance of talking with Odin is minimal'
Eventually, AstroForge plans to mine 2022 OB5 and other space rocks, extracting valuable resources such as platinum-group metals. Odin deployed from its Falcon 9 rocket on schedule on Feb. 26 ...