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.
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.
Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
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Controllers getting no response from Lunar Trailblazer orbiter or Odin asteroid mining probe
NASA and AstroForge missions prove Space is Hard Engineers are continuing to attempt to make contact with NASA's stricken ...
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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
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1st private spacecraft to attempt to travel beyond the moon appears to be in trouble
The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown ...
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There are 3 private lunar landers headed to the moon right now — a 1st in space history
With the launch of Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (Feb. 27), three lunar ...
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Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
the founder and chief executive of the Asteroid Mining Corporation in Britain. His company is taking a slower approach and plans to demonstrate technologies on the moon later this decade.
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Today’s Stacked SpaceX Launch Is Sending Groundbreaking Science to the Moon and Beyond
Odin’s flight plan calls for it to complete a five-day journey towards the Moon, using its gravity to propel itself towards an asteroid called 2022 OB5, a candidate for future mining due to its ...
Odin probe blasts off on SpaceX rocket to survey asteroid for possible mining mission
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 a ...
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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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Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater
The Athena lander, which touched down on the Moon on Thursday and promptly fell over, has been declared dead by its operators ...