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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…
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Astrobotic Selects Lander Engines & More for Griffin/VIPER Mission
Click here to watch Astrobotic Mission Director Daniel Gillies give updates on Griffin Mission One, set to deliver NASA’s VIPER to the Moon. Tuesday, February 16, 2020Pittsburgh, PA – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAstrobotic’s Griffin Mission One (GM1) team has selected Agile Space Industries for Attitude Control System (ACS) thrusters and Frontier Aerospace for axial engines for their Griffin lunar lander. Astrobotic’s Griffin…
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Astrobotic Selects Navigation Doppler Lidar from Psionic for Mission to Deliver VIPER to the Lunar Surface
Pittsburgh, PA and HAMPTON, VA, – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAstrobotic today announced they have selected Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL) from Psionic for their mission in late 2023 to deliver NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the South Pole of the Moon. The NDL serves as a critical sensor element as part of the Griffin Lander’s Guidance, Navigation, and Control…
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Astrobotic Completes Successful Testing with NASA’s Water Detecting Payloads
Pittsburgh, PA – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThree of NASA’s payloads set to fly aboard Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander in 2021 have successfully completed preliminary interface simulation testing between Astrobotic, NASA’s Ames Research Center, and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center payload teams.The three payloads successfully completed simulated end to end testing of the Peregrine power, data, and software interfaces. The test included verifications of…
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