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Space mining company AstroForge's Odin launch is suffering from unknown issues as the team scrambles to get in contact with the probe.

www.space.com Space mining company AstroForge identifies asteroid target for Odin launch next month

"Odin's role is to gather critical imagery of the target asteroid, preparing the way for our next mission, Vestri, which will aim to land on the asteroid and begin extraction."

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Is there any company working on plans to alter the orbit of an asteroid to clash it into earth? I guess that it would be the easiest way to mine the materials no?
- I actually wonder if there are any companies interested in altering an asteroid's orbit such that it does a moon flyby into a free capture orbit. It's probably the most fuel efficient way to pull an asteroid into Earth's orbit and the result would provide a close by asteroid to practice mining and refining material from.
- practically mines itself
- You might also destroy a lot of the resources on entry. Also: Where do you land it? It is not so easy to steer these things and if it lands on someone else's land you might even have to pay them for damages...
  
  Where do you land it?
  Mar-a-Lago
  
  For a landing place I was thinking in a desert zone, like Australia, the Sahara or the yhe desert zone of the US.

I like that they used two iron trap doors on the side of it. Creative use of a block I hardly ever see. (You know, needing redstone to open it.)
- Apparently redstone has issues in a vacuum

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