A private space mission designed to push the boundaries of deep space exploration has encountered major technical failures ...
A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.
As for AstroForge's Odin asteroid-mining scout, unfortunately, like the Lunar Trailblazer, Odin has also fallen out of ...
California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.
A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...
"Even worse, because this is so powerful, we are trying to reach a spacecraft which at this point is 300,000 km [186,411 ...