It hasn’t been a great summer for Elon Musk’s empire. The billionaire has been making headlines not for rockets or robots, but for explosive political drama. After pouring nearly $290 million of his own money into the 2024 election cycle to help Donald Trump return to the White House, Musk has now formed his own […]
Asteroid Mining Startup Loses Its Spacecraft Somewhere Beyond the Moon
A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet. Odin is around 270,000 miles (434,522 kilometers) away from Earth, on a silent journey that’s going nowhere fast. California-based startup AstroForge launched its Odin spacecraft on February 26 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. […]