A tiny spacecraft is poised to launch on an unprecedented deep-space mission. The CEO behind it is ‘terrified’
No company has ever achieved what asteroid mining startup AstroForge is about to set out to do. Success is anything but ...
Karman+ digs up $20M to build an asteroid-mining autonomous spacecraft
Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into ...
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First-Ever Asteroid Mining Mission Loses Contact With Earth
California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.
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"We Ran Into Some Massive Issues": Private Spacecraft Lost 300,000 Kilometers From Earth
A private mission on its way to deep space has encountered "massive issues" shortly after departing the Earth. On February 26 ...
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 ...
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1st private spacecraft to attempt to travel beyond the moon appears to be in trouble
The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown ...
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'I think we all know that hope is fading.' Private Odin asteroid probe is tumbling in space
"I think we all know the hope is fading as we continue the mission," AstroForge founder Matt Gialich said in a video update ...
Odin probe blasts off on SpaceX rocket to survey asteroid for possible mining mission
A second mission would land on the asteroid and test for platinum and other elements - the first mining expeditions could ...
Today’s Stacked SpaceX Launch Is Sending Groundbreaking Science to the Moon and Beyond
The Falcon 9 rocket, packed with exploratory payloads, is scheduled to blast off at 7:17 p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 26.
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A tiny spacecraft is poised to launch on an unprecedented deep-space mission. The CEO behind it is ‘terrified’
The spacecraft is set to spend a little under ... that the price of space travel continues to go down. Even if asteroid mining isn’t possible today, or done by AstroForge, it may become reality ...