The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...
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 ...
"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Even worse, because this is so powerful, we are trying to reach a spacecraft which at this point is 300,000 km [186,411 ...
Odin, a commercial spacecraft launched by the Seal Beach-based startup AstroForge to prepare for asteroid mining, “appears to ...