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AstroForge selects target for "high risk, seat of the pants" asteroid mission
The primary goal is to make sure Odin turns on.
This is important because NASA's Deep Space Network is overtaxed in terms of its resources, so AstroForge will have to use commercially available satellite dishes around the world to communicate with its Odin spacecraft. Odin is a rideshare payload that is due to launch as part of the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission, no earlier than February 26, on a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida. Mission success, Gialich told his team, is reaching deep space beyond the Moon to determine how well Odin's components perform in this thermal and radiation environment.
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