Astrobotic is a private American company specializing in space robotics and lunar missions. As a lunar logistics provider, they design and manufacture lunar landers like Peregrine and Griffin, capable of carrying payloads to the Moon's surface. Astrobotic works with NASA through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, as well as with other commercial and government partners, to facilitate space exploration and technology demonstration. The company aims to make space missions more accessible and affordable.
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Astrobotic’s first Peregrine lander will launch on the inaugural United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur mission in 2022.
Astrobotic partnered with Eternal Light under a collaboration called AstroLight to win a prize for Mission Activity 2 of the Watts on the Moon Challenge.
Astrobotic won the Watts on the Moon Challenge grand prize for Mission Activity 1, a conceptual mission to deliver power from a solar array on the rim of a permanently shadowed lunar polar crater to a NASA rover on the crater floor.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander had been scheduled to launch in late 2021 as the payload on the inaugural United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur launch.
Major James Mathews of Civil Air Patrol drove more than 483 km to deliver a special microchip to Astrobotic.
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.
On 2021-04-13, Astrobotic’s Griffin lander, carrying NASA’s VIPER rover, was scheduled to launch on a Falcon Heavy.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander received a $79,500,000 NASA award at the same time Intuitive Machines won its first CLPS contract.
Astrobotic selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket in a competitive commercial procurement to launch its Griffin lunar lander to the Moon in late 2023.
NASA awarded Astrobotic a task order in 2020 under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative to deliver VIPER to the south pole of the Moon.
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.
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is participating in Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One to land a German-built instrument on the Moon in 2021.
Frontier Aerospace won contracts to provide propulsion systems for lunar landers being built by Astrobotic and by Masten Space Systems.
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.
Astrobotic signed a contract with SpaceX for the launch of its Griffin lunar lander carrying a NASA lunar rover on a Falcon Heavy in 2023.
Astrobotic selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy for its Griffin Mission 1 lunar lander mission to deliver the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the lunar south pole in late 2023.
Astrobotic won a $199,500,000 task order in June 2020 to deliver VIPER to the lunar surface on its Griffin lander.
Daniel Gillies is the director of Griffin Mission 1 at Astrobotic and previously worked at SpaceX as a mission integrator for the STP-2 Falcon Heavy launch.
Astrobotic selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket in a competitive commercial procurement to launch its Griffin lunar lander to the Moon in late 2023.
Astrobotic was awarded a task order in 2020 from NASA to deliver VIPER to the south pole of the Moon as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.