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.
"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...
AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...
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 ...
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 ...
A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...
This is "a pretty incredible journey," writes AstroForge CEO Matt Gialich in a blog post, "one that has never been attempted before." Never before has a privately developed spacecraft traveled as ...
"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.