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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A tiny spacecraft is poised to launch on an unprecedented deep-space mission. The CEO behind it is ‘terrified’
His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious ...
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Tucked Away In The Payload Bay Of The Most Recent SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Is A Private Spacecraft That Aims To Mine Minerals From Asteroids In Deep Space
Just after 7pm on February 26th, 2025, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted into space from its launch spot at Cape Canaveral.
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Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
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 ...
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Karman+ digs up $20M to build an asteroid-mining autonomous spacecraft
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction (and it is, as asteroid mining was a central theme in the 2013 Nebula Award-winning book called "2312"). But the team believes that with advances in ...
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Exploit asteroids for resources using automated mining equipment as they hurtle through your space-claim in Astronomics
Asteroid mining can be pretty chill, except for that ticking clock. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth. It's a great ...
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Today’s Stacked SpaceX Launch Is Sending Groundbreaking Science to the Moon and Beyond
Asteroid Mining Is the Path to a ‘Shitload of Money ... when you’re sitting in your Moon base living room, admiring your watch made from asteroid-mined platinum. Blue Ghost is in the ...