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AstroForge x Intuitive Machines (Rideshare)

AstroForge's Odin spacecraft launched as a rideshare payload on Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lunar mission (Feb 2025), and the upcoming DeepSpace-2/Vestri spacecraft is planned to launch on IM-3 in late 2026. Intuitive Machines provides the launch transport to deep space for AstroForge's asteroid missions.

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Type
deployment
Status
Activeoperating
Announced
2023-12-11
2.7 years ago
Active for
2.7 years

Who’s involved

AstroForgetechnology provider

Huntington Beach, California-based asteroid mining company developing spacecraft to extract and refine platinum-group metals (PGMs) from near-Earth M-type asteroids. Founded in 2022 by Matt Gialich and Jose Acain, AstroForge aims to become the first commercial entity to mine asteroids, targeting precious metals used in AI, electric vehicles, and medicine. The company has launched two demonstration missions (Brokkr-1 and Odin) and is preparing its third mission (DeepSpace-2/Vestri) to land on a [Target](/companies/target) asteroid.

HQHuntington Beach, California, USA2 partnerships

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Intuitive Machinesdeployer

Intuitive Machines is a US commercial lunar-lander and space-services company based in Houston, Texas, maker of the Nova-C autonomous lunar lander (Odysseus), which achieved the first US lunar landing since 1972 in February 2024 under [Nasa](/companies/nasa)'s CLPS program.

HQHouston, Texas, USAintuitivemachines.com1 partnerships

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  1. https://spacenews.com/astroforge-raises-40-million/

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