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 aims to make spaceflight sustainable and repeatable through its reusable rocket technology.
Astrobotic has received three contracts totaling $17.5 million to advance the development of next-generation reusable rocket systems.
Astrobotic's upgraded Xogdor, funded by a $14 million NASA SBIR Phase III contract, will advance to the Block 1B suborbital variant.
Astrobotic has conducted over 625 reusable rocket flights across five vehicles, demonstrating a significant reusable rocket test record.
Astrobotic provides reliable and rapidly reusable flight testbeds for propulsion systems, sensors, and advanced avionics.
Astrobotic's first lunar mission was scheduled for 2025, but supply chain issues moved it to the second half of 2026.
Astrobotic and Draper did not attempt a lunar landing in 2025.
Astrobotic's SSA sensors employ custom high-throughput optics tailored for space surveillance and highly sensitive imaging detectors.
Clavius-S sensors will be deployed on U.S. lunar landers and Astrobotic's planned LunaGrid power nodes.
Astrobotic plans to offer space domain awareness as a service for government and commercial users with multiple Clavius-S units distributed across the lunar surface.
Astrobotic received a NASA award that builds on more than a decade of work on autonomous optical navigation sensors and lunar mission hardware.
NASA has granted a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award to Astrobotic for the development of Clavius-S.
Astrobotic is preparing an orbital variant, Clavius, to support civil, defense, and commercial customers that need monitoring across the broader cislunar volume.
The sensor uses Astrobotic's onboard compute element with hardware-accelerated computer vision to detect objects moving at orbital speeds in real time.
Astrobotic's SSA sensors use current-generation high-performance space computers and advanced algorithms to detect very faint objects and spacecraft in cislunar space and Earth orbit.
Astrobotic has five years of development in space domain awareness and orbital debris detection technologies.
Astrobotic ultimately aims to field a scalable family of sensors operating from the Moon's surface, throughout cislunar space, in Earth orbit, and from other vantage points.
Astrobotic's validation efforts support the readiness of the Griffin-1 mission as the team approaches launch.
Astrobotic runs over 1,500 automated tests on its Software-in-the-Loop platform during every mission code update.
Astrobotic's validation campaign confirms the accuracy of sensors, hazard maps, navigation filters, and guidance algorithms in realistic environments.