"We don't fully understand the state of the vehicle." The first commercial ... Odin, a small spacecraft built by U.S. space mining company AstroForge, piggybacked on the launch of a SpaceX Falcon ...

The vehicle lost contact with ground controllers, fell from space, and exploded ... launch their biggest plans for the moon: tourism and mining operations. Just look at the two Texas-based ...

The prospect of setting up mining operations in space holds the potential for enticing rewards of rare metals that can’t be easily found on Earth. However, these projects face an uphill climb.

Last week, California-based space company AstroForge launched what ... millions of miles from Earth and scout it as a potential mining site. But mere hours after the spacecraft lifted off atop ...

A recent publication in Frontiers in Space Technologies examined the parallels between ocean floor mining and lunar ...

A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be used for prospecting and mining on the moon or asteroids in the future. Unlike ...

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