Mining the top 10 most cost-effective asteroids - largely based on how close they are to Earth - could rake in a profit of $1.5 trillion, according to Asterank, a database keeping track of over ...

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Last week, California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious trouble.

Even if asteroid mining isn’t possible today, or done by AstroForge, it may become reality for one entity or another down the road. “To me, it is about pushing humans forward,” he said.

That’s what Redmond-based asteroid mining company Planetary Resources envisions they’ll be able to accomplish in the future. A new law brings them closer to that goal, president and chief ...

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Space & Spaceflight Asteroid Mining Startup Loses Its Spacecraft Somewhere Beyond the Moon AstroForge's attempt to launch the first commercial deep space mission fell apart shortly after liftoff.

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. California-based AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 ...

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.

Traditionally, asteroid mining has focused on precious materials like noble metals and PGMs, Ellery said, but only one in 2,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs) is known to have PGMs in economically ...

AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 spacecraft, named Odin, which is set to launch next month on a SpaceX rocket.