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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Hope is all but lost for private asteroid probe in deep space — 'the chance of talking with Odin is minimal'
"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...
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Failure is an option. Here's why some new space ventures go sideways
Within the span of a few days, another SpaceX Starship broke up on re-entry, and two other space companies faced failures.
Two moon missions touched down on the lunar surface. How they unfolded was a stark contrast
This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.
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Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 Moon lander is lying dead in a crater
A sideways and off-target landing has brought Intuitive Machines’ lunar mission to an early end — the second such mishap for ...
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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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Scientists Struggle to Communicate With 2 Spacecraft Launched Wednesday
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, which aims to map the Moon's water cycle, and AstroForge's Odin, which will analyze an asteroid's potential metal content, have both failed to transmit consistent data to ...
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Asteroid exploration probably failed - Odin probe staggers through space
But it looks like the mission has failed. AstroForge has lost contact with Odin. "Right now, Odin is still out there, and we're still trying to talk to it," writes AstroForge CEO Matt Gialich in a ...
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Private Spacecraft Disappears 300,000 KM Away from Earth—Engineers Baffled by Sudden Loss
A private space mission designed to push the boundaries of deep space exploration has encountered major technical failures ...
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Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander reaches the moon, but its status is unclear
The mission of Odin, a spacecraft belonging to asteroid mining company AstroForge that rode with Athena to space before breaking off on its own, has met an untimely end, the company shared Thursday.
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"We Ran Into Some Massive Issues": Private Spacecraft Lost 300,000 Kilometers From Earth
A private mission on its way to deep space has encountered "massive issues" shortly after departing the Earth. On February 26, space firm AstroForge launched its new spacecraft, Odin, into space ...