Wed, 01/25/2023 - 11:30 Gizmodo Environment AstroForge has announced an ambitious commercial mission to observe a distant asteroid—an important step for the California startup as it strives to become the world’s first deep space mining company.Read more... Tags asteroid, spacex, Environment, aida, mattgialich, cubesat, planetaryscience, mininginspace, sunra, outerspace, spacecraft, colonizationoftheasteroids, asteroidredirectmission, asteroidmining, planetarydefense Source Asteroid-Mining Startup Plans First Private Mission to Deep Space