Early Monday morning, after an iconic launch aboard a Vulcan Centaur, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander suffered from ... and is 80 percent of the way to lunar distance. The team says that the ...

But within hours of launch, the Peregrine spacecraft developed a propellant ... making it the largest lunar lander since Apollo. Larger vehicles are coming, such as Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mk ...

If Blue Ghost sticks the landing, it will become the first U.S. company to make a fully successful touchdown on the lunar surface. The first to try was Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander, which ...

Reaching the moon is no easy feat, with America’s Peregrine lunar lander suffering a catastrophic glitch on its way there in a mission last year, and Japan’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 failing in the ...

The story of VIPER, with its twists and turns, proves the wisdom of NASA’s turn to the commercial sector for partnerships ...

The close encounter was "a historic first of its type for a Japanese private, commercial lunar lander," according to ispace.

Preparations for the uncrewed lunar lander built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace to enter the moon's orbit ramped up Feb. 8 with a propulsive maneuver known as a "trans lunar injection." ...

Similar to Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology, which developed the Peregrine lunar lander that met a fiery end during its first attempted mission in January 2024, the company has its roots in ...

with “good solutions” for the valve problem that crippled its first lunar lander, Peregrine, shortly after launch in January 2024. Other parts of the spacecraft and its software are also on ...

Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander carried 151 Moon Boxes into space last year, as well as the ashes of dozens of some 70 people. The keepsakes ultimately didn’t reach the lunar surface ...