Peregrine is a pathfinder for Astrobotic’s larger Griffin lander that is being built to deliver NASA’s VIPER rover to the lunar south pole in late 2023.
Astrobotic Technology displayed its nearly complete Peregrine lunar lander at its Pittsburgh headquarters on 2022-04-20.
Astrobotic planned to subject Peregrine to environmental testing within a couple of months after the 2022-04-20 event, followed by shipment to the launch site late 2022.
Once Peregrine’s integration is complete, Peregrine will proceed to spacecraft environmental testing before being shipped to Cape Canaveral, Florida for final preparations for launch in 2022-10-01.
Astrobotic unveiled the flight model of its Peregrine lunar lander on 2022-04-20 at the company’s headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
United Launch Alliance expected to receive BE-4 engines in the first quarter of 2022 to support an inaugural launch for Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander in 2022.
The IM-1, IM-2, and Astrobotic’s Peregrine missions are scheduled to launch in 2022.
Astrobotic’s first Peregrine lander will launch on the inaugural United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur mission in 2022.
United Launch Alliance indicated that customer payload delays, rather than Vulcan technical issues, could delay the Peregrine launch into 2022.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander had been scheduled to launch in late 2021 as the payload on the inaugural United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur launch.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander will launch on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket, currently scheduled for no earlier than late 2021.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander received a $79,500,000 NASA award at the same time Intuitive Machines won its first CLPS contract.
The DLR radiation sensor will be integrated with Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander, which is set to launch in late 2021 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Astrobotic will launch its first CLPS mission, the Peregrine lunar lander, on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur currently scheduled for late 2021.
Sarah Huth is Astrobotic’s graphic designer and designed the Peregrine Mission One patch to reference previous historic missions using Peregrine bird imagery as a nod to NASA’s Apollo 11 patch.
Frontier Aerospace built 150-pound and 10-pound thrusters for Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander.
The Peregrine lunar lander is scheduled to launch in late 2021 on the first flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket.
A NASA-designed and provided NDL is flying on Astrobotic’s Peregrine mission in 2021.
United Launch Alliance plans to have both the Vulcan Centaur and its first customer, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander, on the launch pad by the end of 2021.
Frontier Aerospace won a $1,900,000 NASA Tipping Point award in 2018 to flight-qualify thrusters for Astrobotic’s first Peregrine lunar lander flight.