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 ...
The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown ...
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 decade ago, news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn't quite work out ...
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 ...
Odin, named for the father of Thor in Norse mythology, will be one of the first spacecraft developed by a private sector ...
A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...