Asteroid Mining Startup Loses Its Spacecraft Somewhere Beyond the Moon
A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.
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First-Ever Asteroid Mining Mission Loses Contact With Earth
California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious ...
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AstroForge’s Odin Likely Lost in Space
The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...
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Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
The dream of mining metals ... to go to an asteroid?” Asteroid 2022 OB5 is small, no more than 330 feet across, about the size of a football field. AstroForge’s science team assessed the ...
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Karman+ digs up $20M to build an asteroid-mining autonomous spacecraft
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction (and it is, as asteroid mining was a central theme in the 2013 Nebula Award-winning book called "2312"). But the team believes that with advances in ...
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A tiny spacecraft is poised to launch on an unprecedented deep-space mission. The CEO behind it is ‘terrified’
His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions ... AstroForge has already butted heads with the science community. That’s because the company initially ...
The Engineer22d
Asteroid mining startup Karman+ raises $20m
“The idea of mining asteroids has moved out of science fiction and academic research into a commercial ... The company says it will initially use asteroid regolith for refuelling space tugs that ...