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We Mine Asteroids

Winter 2022Founded 202110 peopleLos Angeles, CA, USA; Huntington Beach, CA, USA
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AstroForge is an asteroid mining company. Instead of bringing back the entire asteroid, we break it up, refine, and return only what’s valuable.

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Matt Gialich
Matt GialichFounder/CEO

Matt is an experienced engineering leader with over a decade of leading high-performing engineering teams. At Virgin Orbit, he was responsible for building and hiring all aspects of Avionics and led the flight software and GNC teams during his tenure. After Virgin, he joined Bird scooters as their Director of Vehicle Software and led that team through the development of the Bird 2 and 3 vehicles.

IndustrialsManufacturing and RoboticsHard TechRoboticsSpace ExplorationSatellites

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