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 ...
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 of hunting for precious metals in space, and he is all too aware that success is not guaranteed. And, quite ...
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 ...
The New York Times18d
Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
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 ...
heise online13d
Space mining: AstroForge sends exploration probe to an asteroid
This is "a pretty incredible journey," writes AstroForge CEO Matt Gialich in a blog post, "one that has never been attempted before." Never before has a privately developed spacecraft traveled as ...
Yahoo News Canada10d
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 ...