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 ...

Last year kicked off with the launch of Astrobotics’ Peregrine lander, marking the first of several missions led by companies working under multimillion-dollar contracts as part of NASA’s Commercial ...

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 ...

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

Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to fly on the first-ever mission of its Griffin moon lander. Griffin was originally supposed to deliver NASA's ice-hunting VIPER ...

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 ...

Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander launched in January 2024 on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance's ...

Space exploration should be for all countries and for the benefit of all mankind.  More or less, that’s what the Outer Space Treaty says, which was signed in 1967 and is the basis of the laws ...

However, lunar water is not important unless people ... Astrobotic famously attempted to send its Peregrine lander to the moon a year ago, an endeavor that ultimately failed.