A privately-built spacecraft has blasted off on an unprecedented mission to scout an asteroid for potential mining. The probe, named Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket to survey asteroid 2022 OB5.
With the launch of Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (Feb. 27), three lunar ...
February may be the shortest month of the year, but that doesn’t mean it was short on interesting rounds. Startups ranging ...
Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander, named Athena, snapped some amazing shots of its home planet shortly after launching ...
His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold ...
A SpaceX launch Wednesday night sent both a lander and an orbiter on their way to the moon, both on the hunt for ice.
SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, February 26 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission to a lunar transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The latest contender is a standout: The spacecraft, called Athena, was built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which so ...
SpaceX is set to launch the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission this evening from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.
The mission is to become the first commercially built spacecraft to go beyond the Moon in the first steps towards asteroid ...
No company has ever achieved what asteroid mining startup AstroForge is about to set out to do. Success is anything but ...