Peregrine is currently about 234,000 miles away from Earth.
The Peregrine spacecraft has been operating in space for 5 days and 8 hours and is about 242,0 m from Earth.
Astrobotic provided power to and received data from nine of the 20 payloads on the Peregrine lander as of 2024-01-11.
Peregrine successfully received data from all 9 payloads designed to communicate with the lander.
Astrobotic released the first images taken by its Peregrine lunar lander on 2024-01-08 showing a disturbance in its insulation layer.
Astrobotic's Peregrine lander carried 20 payloads, including five NASA instruments valued at $108 million.
The Peregrine Lunar Lander lifted off at 2:18 a.m. ET on 2024-01-08 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The Peregrine lander includes parts manufactured by hundreds of suppliers across the United States, including 184 companies in Pennsylvania.
United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral carrying Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander.
Peregrine established communications with Earth and powered on after the successful launch.
The launch window to place Peregrine on a highly elliptical orbit with an apogee of 360,000 kilometers was 45 minutes.
NASA is paying $108,000,000 for Peregrine’s payload delivery.
Peregrine’s original mission timeline planned a lunar landing for 2024-02-23.
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program awarded Astrobotic $108,000,000 to fly payloads on the Peregrine mission.
A maneuver was performed to reorient Peregrine's solar panels after a propulsion system failure.
Astrobotic's goal is to get Peregrine as close to lunar distance as possible before it loses power.
Astrobotic stated that the propulsion system failure was causing a critical loss of propellant for Peregrine.
The Centaur upper stage placed Peregrine on a highly elliptical orbit that will take it to the moon and into lunar orbit in advance of a landing attempt on 2024-02-23.
Astrobotic reported an anomaly that prevented Peregrine from achieving a stable sun-pointing orientation.
The Mexican space agency AEM is flying five micro-rovers on Peregrine.