It was swinging and missing for the first private attempt in the asteroid mission, but the company is still engaged in this as a victory. The California startup Astroforge launched a spacecraft called Odin on February 26, but the team lost touch with it shortly after launching SpaceX Falcon 9 on the rocket.
“The probability of talking with Odin is minimal, since at the moment the accuracy of his position is becoming a problem,” the company says in its vast company in its vast company missions. Technical problems arose at its main ground station in Australia, but Astroford said that other problems could also arise on lodge to further prevent the establishment of contacts.
Although the launch was a bust, Astroforge has retained optimism regarding the project as a valuable learning experience for its possible goal of creating and operating asteroid production. The company is asterized at the asteroid 2022 OB5 in order to plant it on its surface and extract potentially valuable resources. One was built in 10 months for $ 3.5 million, a piece of money and the time of federal space projects that were taken to complete.
Astroforge CEO Matt Gialakh had several quotes in the analysis, all of them were strewn with curses, and he summed up the company’s ethos as: “At the end of the day, how should you appear damn and make a shot, right? You must try. “