Das Weltraumbergbau-Startup AstroForge will 2025 eine historische Asteroidenlandemission starten

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>The California company announced Tuesday (Aug. 20) that it aims to launch its third mission in 2025, as a ridealong on Houston company [Intuitive Machines](https://www.space.com/intuitive-machines)‘ IM-3 moon mission. That launch will send AstroForge’s 440-pound (200 kilograms) Vestri probe to dock with a metallic near-Earth [asteroid](https://www.space.com/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html) — an unprecedented leap for a commercial spacecraft.

>“If successful, this mission will be the first private mission to land on another body outside of our Earth-[moon](https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html) system and will move us closer to realizing our mission of making off-world resources accessible to all humankind,“ AstroForge [wrote in an update Tuesday](https://www.astroforge.io/updates/firing-on-all-cylinders-announcing-40m-and-mission-3).

>That same update revealed that AstroForge has raised $40 million more from investors, bringing its total funding haul to date to $55 million.