AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 spacecraft, named Odin, which is set to launch next month on a SpaceX rocket. Skip to main content.

The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, possibly tumbling through deep space.“I think we all know the hope is ...

AstroForge is banking that 2022 OB5 is an M-type asteroid, potentially rich with platinum. And if Odin’s camera can confirm that the space rock contains the valuable metal, a future AstroForge ...

Space mining company AstroForge has revealed the destination of its next asteroid prospecting mission and has ... Odin is flying as a secondary payload on the Falcon 9 launch Intuitive Machine ...

AstroForge experienced its first critical issue within the first few hours of lift-off: its primary command station, a 5M dish dubbed Capricorn in Australia, couldn't communicate with Odin. For ...

California-based startup AstroForge launched its Odin spacecraft on February 26 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The probe was headed toward a small asteroid to scan it for valuable metals, in service ...

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.

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 ...

With the Feb. 26 launch, as Odin takes off on board a lunar lander developed by Intuitive Machines, AstroForge will have perhaps made it further than any other startup founded under the same goal.