A private space mission designed to push the boundaries of deep space exploration has encountered major technical failures ...
A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.
California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.
As for AstroForge's Odin asteroid-mining scout, unfortunately, like the Lunar Trailblazer, Odin has also fallen out of ...
"I think we all know the hope is fading as we continue the mission," AstroForge founder Matt Gialich said in a video update ...
"Even worse, because this is so powerful, we are trying to reach a spacecraft which at this point is 300,000 km [186,411 ...
A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...
The spacecraft, called Odin, launched atop a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday (Feb. 26) on a mission to fly by the small asteroid 2022 OB5 for AstroForge, a company that aims to eventually mine the ...