{"id":182306,"date":"2024-08-23T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/astroforge-and-asteroid-mining-mission\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T14:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:49:23","slug":"astroforge-and-asteroid-mining-mission","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/astroforge-and-asteroid-mining-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"AstroForge Secures $40M for Third Asteroid Mining Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Asteroid mining expert <strong>AstroForge<\/strong> announced the preparation of its third space mission, Vestri, which is scheduled for 2025.\nThis mission seeks to dock with a near-Earth asteroid to<strong> extract and analyze possible valuable minerals<\/strong>, specifically <strong>iron<\/strong>, with the goal of transforming the supply chain of raw materials for the planet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The asteroid mining mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement follows the success of AstroForge&#8217;s first mission in 2023 and the upcoming launch of its second mission, <strong>Odin<\/strong>, later this year. <strong>Vestri<\/strong>, the 200 kg spacecraft assigned for the third mission, will be developed in-house and is designed to perform complex docking maneuvers in deep space, enabling detailed characterization of the target asteroid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the company has raised a Series A financing round of $40 million, led by <strong>Nova Threshold<\/strong> and with participation from investors such as <strong>776<\/strong>, <strong>Initialized<\/strong>, <strong>Caladan<\/strong>, <strong>YC<\/strong>, <strong>Uncorrelated Ventures<\/strong> and <strong>Jed McCaleb.<\/strong>\nThis funding brings the total raised by the company to $55 million, strengthening its capabilities and development in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/articulo\/space-mining-future-extraction-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"articulo\" data-id=\"103596\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the field of space mining<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">If the <strong>Vestri mission<\/strong> is successful, it would become the first private mission to land and conduct operations on a celestial body outside the Earth-Moon system, a historic event for space exploration.<em>&#8220;The horizon looks bright, and if we are successful, this will be a major step forward in creating a new supply chain of raw materials for Earth<\/em>,&#8221; noted AstroForge&#8217;s CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow us on social networks and don&#8217;t miss any of our publications!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@inspenet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/inspenetnetwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inspenetnetwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/inspenet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Inspenetnetwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astroforge.io\/updates\/firing-on-all-cylinders-announcing-40m-and-mission-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AstroForge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Photo: AI-generated<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the upcoming missions, the company continues to move towards its vision of making space resources accessible to all mankind, laying the foundation for an entirely new industry in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8404,"featured_media":182270,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13064,13030,13060],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-182306","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-aerospace","categoria_noticias-industry","categoria_noticias-mining"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/182306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/182306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=182306"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=182306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}