Today’s Stacked SpaceX Launch Is Sending Groundbreaking Science to the Moon and Beyond
The Falcon 9 rocket, packed with exploratory payloads, is scheduled to blast off at 7:17 p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 26.
Elon Musk fires rocket at asteroid - but the mission isn't what you might expect
The probe, known as Odin, is set to travel into deep space to make a pass by of an asteroid known as 2022 OB5 to detect if it ...
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 ...
Probe blasts off to chase 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 ...
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Can we mine minerals from asteriods? First attempt this week
Mitch Hunter-Scullion, CEO of Asteroid Mining Corp in Britain, emphasized the enormous potential of such missions by saying a ...
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AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission
"The biggest thing is, when we intercept it, we will be less than 1 million miles from Earth," said Matt Gialich, chief executive and co-founder of the company. This is important because NASA's ...
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Earth's first asteroid mining prospector heads to the launchpad
If this works out, this will probably be the biggest business ever conceived of,' said Matt Gialich, founder and CEO of ...
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SpaceX rocket launches private moon lander and NASA 'trailblazer' to hunt for lunar water (video)
SpaceX launched a double moon mission today (Feb. 26), sending a private lunar lander and a NASA orbiter to hunt for signs of ...