If an asteroid really threatened the Earth, what would a planetary defense mission look like? Even rendezvous and landing ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...
Beyond Odin, AstroForge is already eyeing an asteroid landing mission, dubbed Vestri, despite the major challenges with its current probe. "We have probably the best group of investors in the world. A ...
Intuitive Machines’ spacecraft was launched on the same Falcon 9 rocket as AstroForge’s Odin, but, unlike the asteroid surveyor, the lunar lander has not reported any significant technical problems ...
with future spacecraft planned to actually land on the asteroid and mine for materials. It was not stated whether the issues encountered by Odin would affect a planned landing in as early as 2026 ...