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#AstroForge CEO Matt Gialich isn’t surprised the startup failed to reach its destination on its first #asteroid mission #Odin in February: https://payloadspace.com/a-post-mission-debrief-with-astroforges-ceo/ - in fact, don’t be surprised if the next spacecraft, set to launch with Intuitive Machine’s IM-3 this fall, fails too.
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From 06 Mar: Asteroid Mining Startup Loses Its Spacecraft Somewhere Beyond the Moon - A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in d... https://gizmodo.com/asteroid-mining-startup-loses-its-spacecraft-somewhere-beyond-the-moon-2000572644 #aerospace-technology #asteroid-mining #asteroids #astroforge #space-&-spaceflight
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Nearly every ground station 📡 experienced some kind of failure:
• Wrong configuration
• Incorrect pointing coordinates
• An unexpected loss of a power amplifier the day before our launch
• Interference from a recently built cell tower that, although not in our frequency band, created enough noise to disrupt communications
• Insufficient mid-path gain, meaning weak signals were not getting to our radio receiver
https://www.astroforge.com/updates/odint-mission-debrief -
Nearly every ground station 📡 experienced some kind of failure:
• Wrong configuration
• Incorrect pointing coordinates
• An unexpected loss of a power amplifier the day before our launch
• Interference from a recently built cell tower that, although not in our frequency band, created enough noise to disrupt communications
• Insufficient mid-path gain, meaning weak signals were not getting to our radio receiver
https://www.astroforge.com/updates/odint-mission-debrief -
Nearly every ground station 📡 experienced some kind of failure:
• Wrong configuration
• Incorrect pointing coordinates
• An unexpected loss of a power amplifier the day before our launch
• Interference from a recently built cell tower that, although not in our frequency band, created enough noise to disrupt communications
• Insufficient mid-path gain, meaning weak signals were not getting to our radio receiver
https://www.astroforge.com/updates/odint-mission-debrief -
Nearly every ground station 📡 experienced some kind of failure:
• Wrong configuration
• Incorrect pointing coordinates
• An unexpected loss of a power amplifier the day before our launch
• Interference from a recently built cell tower that, although not in our frequency band, created enough noise to disrupt communications
• Insufficient mid-path gain, meaning weak signals were not getting to our radio receiver
https://www.astroforge.com/updates/odint-mission-debrief -
Nearly every ground station 📡 experienced some kind of failure:
• Wrong configuration
• Incorrect pointing coordinates
• An unexpected loss of a power amplifier the day before our launch
• Interference from a recently built cell tower that, although not in our frequency band, created enough noise to disrupt communications
• Insufficient mid-path gain, meaning weak signals were not getting to our radio receiver
https://www.astroforge.com/updates/odint-mission-debrief -
Die erste private Asteroiden-Mission steht vor dem Aus: Kontakt zur #Odin-Sonde abgebrochen. Doch #AstroForge gibt nicht auf und plant bereits die nächste Mission. #Raumfahrt #Asteroidenbergbau https://winfuture.de/news,149303.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
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Erste private Asteroidenbergbau-Mission gestartet: Sonde "Odin" untersucht Bergbaupotenzial des Asteroiden 2022 OB5. Neues Kapitel der kommerziellen Weltraumnutzung? #AstroForge #Weltraumbergbau https://winfuture.de/news,149186.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
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National parks are underfunded. Firefighters are going into wildfire season understaffed. Food banks are suspending programs.
So what are House Republicans doing? Holding a hearing on space mining—an Elon Musk pet project that would make him even richer on the taxpayers’ dime.
Source : @nrdems#corruption #wastefraudandabuse #musk #rephuffman #spaceballs #astroforge #grifters #nationalizeSpacex #maga
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National parks are underfunded. Firefighters are going into wildfire season understaffed. Food banks are suspending programs.
So what are House Republicans doing? Holding a hearing on space mining—an Elon Musk pet project that would make him even richer on the taxpayers’ dime.
Source : @nrdems#corruption #wastefraudandabuse #musk #rephuffman #spaceballs #astroforge #grifters #nationalizeSpacex #maga
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National parks are underfunded. Firefighters are going into wildfire season understaffed. Food banks are suspending programs.
So what are House Republicans doing? Holding a hearing on space mining—an Elon Musk pet project that would make him even richer on the taxpayers’ dime.
Source : @nrdems#corruption #wastefraudandabuse #musk #rephuffman #spaceballs #astroforge #grifters #nationalizeSpacex #maga
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National parks are underfunded. Firefighters are going into wildfire season understaffed. Food banks are suspending programs.
So what are House Republicans doing? Holding a hearing on space mining—an Elon Musk pet project that would make him even richer on the taxpayers’ dime.
Source : @nrdems#corruption #wastefraudandabuse #musk #rephuffman #spaceballs #astroforge #grifters #nationalizeSpacex #maga
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National parks are underfunded. Firefighters are going into wildfire season understaffed. Food banks are suspending programs.
So what are House Republicans doing? Holding a hearing on space mining—an Elon Musk pet project that would make him even richer on the taxpayers’ dime.
Source : @nrdems#corruption #wastefraudandabuse #musk #rephuffman #spaceballs #astroforge #grifters #nationalizeSpacex #maga
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“A single one-kilometer-diameter asteroid, if it was platinum-bearing, would contain about 117,000 tons of #platinum. That’s about 680 years of global supply. You’re talking about centuries of platinum demand from a single #asteroid ☄️”. #Odin will arrive in late 📆 2025 after a journey of about 300 days to #2022OB5 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/science/astroforge-launch-asteroid-mining.html
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“A single one-kilometer-diameter asteroid, if it was platinum-bearing, would contain about 117,000 tons of #platinum. That’s about 680 years of global supply. You’re talking about centuries of platinum demand from a single #asteroid ☄️”. #Odin will arrive in late 📆 2025 after a journey of about 300 days to #2022OB5 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/science/astroforge-launch-asteroid-mining.html
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#AstroForge launches the #Odin mission in 📆 January 2025. A third attempt is planned for late 2025. The fourth mission will focus on extracting and refining #asteroids’ metals before returning to Earth https://www.mining.com/astroforge-secures-first-ever-commercial-license-for-asteroid-mission/
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#AstroForge is tracking several candidate asteroids, each of which is about 400 meters 📏 across. There is no shortage of potential targets. Scientists estimate that there are about 10 million near-Earth #asteroids ☄️, perhaps 3 to 5 percent of these are rich in #metals, so there are potentially hundreds of thousands of candidates for #mining. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/against-all-odds-an-asteroid-mining-company-appears-to-be-making-headway/
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#AstroForge plans to piggyback on a robotic mission to the #moon in 📆 2024 by #IntuitiveMachines, launched 🚀 * on a #SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket.
During the journey to the moon, the plan is for #Odin to be released and to venture into #DeepSpace beyond lunar orbit. Within a year the #spacecraft will fly past the #asteroid ☄️, taking pictures 📷 in the process and looking for evidence of #metal https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/science/secret-asteroid-mission-astroforge.html* 📆 Feb 10, 2024 https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/1915
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Early next year, a #SpaceX rocket will be launching a #spacecraft to an #asteroid ☄️ that will take about nine months to reach.
As the world transitions away from #FossilFuels and begins to rely even more heavily on #electricity 🔌, it’s going to need more #metals. Many of the #asteroids in our #SolarSystem 🌌 are chock full of the metals that are needed for the #industries of the future, such as #cobalt, #nickel and #platinum-group metals.
#Astroforge thinks it can support #mining missions with over 80% margins 💰🤑 https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2023/10/18/this-asteroid-mining-startup-is-ready-to-launch-the-first-ever-commercial-deep-space-mission/ -
The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last - AstroForge, a private company, wants to mine a space rock, but it doesn’t want the compet... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/science/secret-asteroid-mission-astroforge.html #rocketscienceandpropulsion #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #minesandmining #solarsystem #astroforge #asteroids #start-ups
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The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last - AstroForge, a private company, wants to mine a space rock, but it doesn’t want the compet... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/science/secret-asteroid-mission-astroforge.html #rocketscienceandpropulsion #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #minesandmining #solarsystem #astroforge #asteroids #start-ups
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The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last - AstroForge, a private company, wants to mine a space rock, but it doesn’t want the compet... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/science/secret-asteroid-mission-astroforge.html #rocketscienceandpropulsion #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #minesandmining #solarsystem #astroforge #asteroids #start-ups
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The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last - AstroForge, a private company, wants to mine a space rock, but it doesn’t want the compet... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/science/secret-asteroid-mission-astroforge.html #rocketscienceandpropulsion #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #minesandmining #solarsystem #astroforge #asteroids #start-ups
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The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last - AstroForge, a private company, wants to mine a space rock, but it doesn’t want the compet... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/science/secret-asteroid-mission-astroforge.html #rocketscienceandpropulsion #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #minesandmining #solarsystem #astroforge #asteroids #start-ups
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Eight months after the launch of their first experimental satellite Brokkr-1 into LEO #AstroForge has finally published a mission report, and it's a pretty detailled one: https://www.astroforge.io/updates/2023-update - there have been many problems with the small satellite as such but the in-orbit metal refining demo, which is crucial for their business plan of mining asteroids for Platin Group Metals and refining them into super-profitable blocks of metal with the spacecraft still there, can now finally begin.
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The small #AsteroidMining start-up #AstroForge is only occasionally sharing details about its #space missions (the first one launched in April, the next one is waiting for a ride piggybacked on a lunar mission) but in the long interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDk7Ybu8nGM the CEO just provided *some* fascinating new insights into their near-term plans and grand vision. Fascinating ... and surprisingly full of F words, so you may not want to play it loud in an office environment or with children present. ;-)
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📆 2023 #Brokkr-2 will go on a mission to scout #DeepSpace and visit one of #AstroForge’s target #asteroids ☄️, which has not yet been made public.
What’s changed in the past decade is an emerging economy of companies offering #launch, #orbital and other #InSpace services. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/01/24/commercial-asteroid-mining-now-has-a-2023-launch-date-to-scout-its-first-target -
📆 2023 #Brokkr-2 will go on a mission to scout #DeepSpace and visit one of #AstroForge’s target #asteroids ☄️, which has not yet been made public.
What’s changed in the past decade is an emerging economy of companies offering #launch, #orbital and other #InSpace services. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/01/24/commercial-asteroid-mining-now-has-a-2023-launch-date-to-scout-its-first-target -
📆 2023 #Brokkr-2 will go on a mission to scout #DeepSpace and visit one of #AstroForge’s target #asteroids ☄️, which has not yet been made public.
What’s changed in the past decade is an emerging economy of companies offering #launch, #orbital and other #InSpace services. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/01/24/commercial-asteroid-mining-now-has-a-2023-launch-date-to-scout-its-first-target -
📆 2023 #Brokkr-2 will go on a mission to scout #DeepSpace and visit one of #AstroForge’s target #asteroids ☄️, which has not yet been made public.
What’s changed in the past decade is an emerging economy of companies offering #launch, #orbital and other #InSpace services. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/01/24/commercial-asteroid-mining-now-has-a-2023-launch-date-to-scout-its-first-target -
📆 2023 #Brokkr-2 will go on a mission to scout #DeepSpace and visit one of #AstroForge’s target #asteroids ☄️, which has not yet been made public.
What’s changed in the past decade is an emerging economy of companies offering #launch, #orbital and other #InSpace services. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/01/24/commercial-asteroid-mining-now-has-a-2023-launch-date-to-scout-its-first-target -
The #Psyche #spacecraft travels using #SolarElectric (low-thrust) #propulsion. Solar ☀️ electric propulsion uses electricity from solar arrays to create electromagnetic fields to accelerate and expel charged atoms ⚛️ (#ions) of #xenon to create a very low thrust with a very efficient use of #propellant ⛽. This will be the first use of a #HallEffectThruster beyond lunar orbit.
#Launch period 📆 October 5-25, 2023 https://psyche.asu.edu/mission/launchPropulsion : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_(spacecraft)#Propulsion
#Forbes "Psyche could contain a core of #iron, #nickel and #gold worth $10,000 #quadrillion" https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/10/29/nasa-will-launch-psyche-mission-to-explore-asteroid-worth-more-than-the-global-economy
#NYT #AsteroidMining : "let’s say Psyche ☄️were pulverized and carried to #Earth 🌎. For precisely that reason, #prices of iron and nickel would drop close to zero. I interviewed Matthew Gialich, the chief executive officer and a co-founder of #AstroForge. They’re going for #platinum, which sells for a little under $1,000 an ounce, and related #metals, such as #palladium." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/opinion/psyche-asteroid-nasa-mining.html
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ICYMI, the #asteroidmining start-up #AstroForge is preparing the first private mission to an #asteroid, called #Brokkr-2 - and categorically refuses to disclose which one has already been selected as the primary target, something unheard of in 60 years of #interplanetary travel: https://www.astroforge.io/updates/two-steps-closer-to-mining-in-deep-space-announcing-two-astroforge-missions-for-2023 and https://www.intuitivemachines.com/post/intuitive-machines-announces-agreement-to-deliver-astroforge-asteroid-mining-payload-to-deep-space as well as https://spacenews.com/asteroid-mining-startup-astroforge-to-launch-first-missions-this-year-2/ discussing the asteroid secrecy.
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ICYMI, the #asteroidmining start-up #AstroForge is preparing the first private mission to an #asteroid, called #Brokkr-2 - and categorically refuses to disclose which one has already been selected as the primary target, something unheard of in 60 years of #interplanetary travel: https://www.astroforge.io/updates/two-steps-closer-to-mining-in-deep-space-announcing-two-astroforge-missions-for-2023 and https://www.intuitivemachines.com/post/intuitive-machines-announces-agreement-to-deliver-astroforge-asteroid-mining-payload-to-deep-space as well as https://spacenews.com/asteroid-mining-startup-astroforge-to-launch-first-missions-this-year-2/ discussing the asteroid secrecy.
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ICYMI, the #asteroidmining start-up #AstroForge is preparing the first private mission to an #asteroid, called #Brokkr-2 - and categorically refuses to disclose which one has already been selected as the primary target, something unheard of in 60 years of #interplanetary travel: https://www.astroforge.io/updates/two-steps-closer-to-mining-in-deep-space-announcing-two-astroforge-missions-for-2023 and https://www.intuitivemachines.com/post/intuitive-machines-announces-agreement-to-deliver-astroforge-asteroid-mining-payload-to-deep-space as well as https://spacenews.com/asteroid-mining-startup-astroforge-to-launch-first-missions-this-year-2/ discussing the asteroid secrecy.
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ICYMI, the #asteroidmining start-up #AstroForge is preparing the first private mission to an #asteroid, called #Brokkr-2 - and categorically refuses to disclose which one has already been selected as the primary target, something unheard of in 60 years of #interplanetary travel: https://www.astroforge.io/updates/two-steps-closer-to-mining-in-deep-space-announcing-two-astroforge-missions-for-2023 and https://www.intuitivemachines.com/post/intuitive-machines-announces-agreement-to-deliver-astroforge-asteroid-mining-payload-to-deep-space as well as https://spacenews.com/asteroid-mining-startup-astroforge-to-launch-first-missions-this-year-2/ discussing the asteroid secrecy.
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ICYMI, the #asteroidmining start-up #AstroForge is preparing the first private mission to an #asteroid, called #Brokkr-2 - and categorically refuses to disclose which one has already been selected as the primary target, something unheard of in 60 years of #interplanetary travel: https://www.astroforge.io/updates/two-steps-closer-to-mining-in-deep-space-announcing-two-astroforge-missions-for-2023 and https://www.intuitivemachines.com/post/intuitive-machines-announces-agreement-to-deliver-astroforge-asteroid-mining-payload-to-deep-space as well as https://spacenews.com/asteroid-mining-startup-astroforge-to-launch-first-missions-this-year-2/ discussing the asteroid secrecy.
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#AsteroidMining ⚒️ : The first launch, scheduled for 📆 April 2023, will test #AstroForge’s technique for refining 🔬 #platinum from a sample of asteroid-like material. The second, planned for October, will scout for an #asteroid ☄️ near #Earth to #mine https://www.mining.com/web/asteroid-mining-startup-astroforge-to-launch-first-missions-this-year/