A year after losing contact with its deep-space probe Odin, AstroForge is preparing for another launch—this time attempting to reach a metal-rich asteroid in a bid to prove that mining precious metals in space is possible. “DeepSpace-2 is scheduled to fly in the fourth quarter of this year,” co-founder and CEO Matt Gialich told the Business Journal on June 17. The Seal Beach-based startup, which aims to bring valuable metals such as platinum bac…
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