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Space Mining Startup Confirms First Private Mission To An Asteroid in 2025
AstroForge is planning a third private mission to mine metals from a near-Earth asteroid and replenish critical resources on Earth.
gettyCalifornia-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize mining in space with the first private mission to land on another body outside of the Earth-moon system. The mission will see its spacecraft, Vestri, dock on the company’s target near-Earth asteroid, whose identity remains unknown. Vestri will launch aboard Intuitive Machines’ IM-3 mission, which is due to blast off in October 2025, primarily to put a small lander on the moon.
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