“Will we actually land on an asteroid and get these beautiful samples? Probably f------ not,” Gialich told Payload. “But do we hope to change the name of the game for access to deep space, and show people that the price point we’re doing this at is doable? I hope.”
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 Mission zur Erkundung eines Asteroiden ist wohl gescheitert: Die Kommunikation mit der Sonde Odin ist abgebrochen, sie taumelt nun im Weltraum. Das Unternehmen will aber nicht aufgeben und plant bereits die nächste Mission.
Ein privates Raumschiff ist zu einer beispiellosen Weltraummission aufgebrochen. Die Sonde "Odin" soll einen Asteroiden auf sein Bergbaupotenzial untersuchen. Das Projekt könnte den Beginn einer neuen Ära der kommerziellen Weltraumnutzung markieren.
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