AstroForge says there's no real hope of reestablishing contact with its Odin probe, the first private spacecraft ever to fly ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...

AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...

The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown ...

His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious metals ...

"Even worse, because this is so powerful, we are trying to reach a spacecraft which at this point is 300,000 km [186,411 ...

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Within the span of a few days, another SpaceX Starship broke up on re-entry, and two other space companies faced failures.

A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...

Another probe that launched alongside Lunar Trailblazer appears to be in trouble. Astroforge, a private company that hopes to ...

"I think we all know the hope is fading as we continue the mission," AstroForge founder Matt Gialich said in a video update on X early Saturday (March 1). "So we're going to keep our head up.