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 ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious ...

The outlook for a private spacecraft to conduct a fly-by mission of an asteroid known as 2022 OB5 looks bleak after a series of communication issues. The spacecraft Odin launched aboard a SpaceX ...

AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...

The Odin mission is a scouting effort to fly by asteroid 2022 OB5 to record images and data that would set the stage for a landing by AstroForge's next mission, called Vestri. The company built ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...

But fear, Gialich emphasized, is an element of the job that he believes AstroForge should embrace as the company prepares to launch its robotic spacecraft, Odin, on an asteroid flyby mission that ...

A US-based private aerospace company is aiming to commercially mine an asteroid later this week using a microwave-sized robotic spacecraft named Odin, according to a report Sunday. According to The ...

AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan reported on AstroForge in 2023 when its ...