Moon Lander
-
NASA
Astrobotic Peregrine Fueled & Ready for Lunar Mission
Astrobotic announced today their Peregrine lunar lander successfully completed all integration milestones and was mated with United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket payload adapter on November 16, 2023. After a 3-week campaign to fuel and complete final checkouts, the Peregrine spacecraft is ready to launch a historic mission to the Moon on January 8, 2024. “I have high praise for the professionalism,…
Read More » -
NASA
Peregrine Spacecraft On the Move
Astrobotic announced today the Peregrine lunar lander has left their headquarters for the last time. The spacecraft is now headed to test facilities for final acceptance testing before its first launch to the Moon in Q1 2023.Peregrine’s acceptance campaign will subject the spacecraft to a battery of industry-standard tests that will prove Peregrine can endure the launch environment aboard United…
Read More » -
NASA
NASA Provides Update to Astronaut Moon Lander Plans Under Artemis
As NASA makes strides to return humans to the lunar surface under Artemis, the agency announced plans Wednesday to create additional opportunities for commercial companies to develop an astronaut Moon lander. Under this new approach, NASA is asking American companies to propose lander concepts capable of ferrying astronauts between lunar orbit and the lunar surface for missions beyond Artemis III, which…
Read More » -
Press Releases
More than 27,000 Civil Air Patrol Names Headed to the Moon
On Saturday, Major James Mathews of Civil Air Patrol (CAP) drove more than 300 miles to deliver a special microchip to space robotics company Astrobotic. This microchip, carrying 27,285 names, messages, and images, is set to be carried to the Moon later this year aboard Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander.The US Air Force Auxiliary, CAP partnered with the Cornell NanoScale Science and…
Read More » -
NASA
Astrobotic’s CubeRover Completes Successful Mobility Testing
Pittsburgh, PA – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAstrobotic’s CubeRover successfully completed more than 150 mobility tests inside a 120-ton enclosure designed to mimic the surface of the Moon. These tests will further inform the final wheel design of all three sizes of the scalable CubeRover line. Because CubeRovers are smaller than any rover that has operated on the lunar surface, only estimates from…
Read More » -
NASA
ASTROBOTIC SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES PEREGRINE LUNAR LANDER STRUCTURAL MODEL TESTING
Pittsburgh, PA – Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One program has successfully passed structural qualification testing, marking a major development milestone toward its maiden voyage and lunar landing in 2021. These tests qualify the integrity of the Peregrine lander’s structure and its ability to survive launch while carrying payloads from 16 customers. The test campaign was completed using the Peregrine Structural Test…
Read More » -
NASA
NASA to Announce Selection of Company to Fly VIPER Rover to Moon
NASA will announce the commercial provider selected to deliver NASA’s new water-hunting mobile robot, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), to the South Pole of the Moon during a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 10. As the first resource-mapping mission on the surface of another world, VIPER will help pave the way for a new era…
Read More » -
NASA
NASA to Announce Commercial Human Lander Awards for Artemis Moon Missions
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 30, to announce the companies selected to develop modern human landing systems (HLS) that will carry the first woman and next man to the surface of the Moon by 2024 and develop sustainable lunar exploration by the end of the decade. Audio of the call will stream online…
Read More »