The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...
"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...
A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.
AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...
The Odin spacecraft aims to capture images of asteroid 2022 OB5, which is believed to contain significant amounts of platinum ...
It was supposed to be the start of asteroid mining. But it looks like the mission has failed. AstroForge has lost contact ...
As for AstroForge's Odin asteroid-mining scout, unfortunately, like the Lunar Trailblazer, Odin has also fallen out of ...
A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...
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 ...
The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be over, just a week or so after it left the ground. "The chance of talking with Odin is minimal, as at this point, the accuracy of its position ...
At the time of Gialich's update Saturday morning, the Odin spacecraft was over 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) from Earth and largely following its intended trajectory. On Friday, AstroForge ...