Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One launched in January 2024 but suffered a propellant leak that prevented landing and led to reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One launched in January 2024 and suffered a propellant leak that prevented landing.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One operated in cislunar space for 10 days earlier in the same year.
The DSN antennas in Canberra, Madrid, and Goldstone are the same suite used to communicate with Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One during its 10-day cislunar mission.
Astrobotic's Peregrine Mission One spent 10 days and 13 hours in space before making a controlled re-entry over open water in the South Pacific at approximately 4:04 p.m. EST on 2024-01-18.
The Cert-1 mission for Vulcan included Astrobotic's Peregrine Mission One lunar lander as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to deliver science and technology to the lunar surface.
The Cert-1 mission will deliver Astrobotic’s Peregrine commercial lunar lander (Peregrine Mission One, PM1) into a highly elliptical orbit more than 220,0 m (360,0 m) above Earth to intercept the Moon.
Cert-1 will carry Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander, Peregrine Mission One (PM1), as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to deliver science and technology to the lunar surface.
The Cert-1 mission includes Peregrine Mission One (PM1), the first Peregrine lunar lander for Astrobotic as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative to deliver science and technology to the lunar service.
Peregrine Mission One's flight acceptance campaign was completed on schedule and exceeded expectations.
Peregrine Mission One will be launched on ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket.
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is participating in Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One to land a German-built instrument on the Moon in 2021.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One patch will be available to the general public through Astrobotic’s new online store anticipated to launch in early April 2021.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One (PM1) is set to launch later 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.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One program passed structural qualification testing ahead of its planned maiden voyage and lunar landing in 2021.