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Launch Date
1/8/2023
Launch Site
CC SLC41
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Launch Vehicle
Vulcan Centaur VC2S (Vulcan Family)
With the $79,500,000 CLPS award, Astrobotic has signed 16 customers for lunar delivery on its first mission.
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program selected Astrobotic to deliver up to 14 NASA payloads to the Moon on its Peregrine lunar lander in 2021.
Astrobotic announced an agreement with ULA in July 2017 for Peregrine to launch as a secondary payload on an Atlas V in 2019.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander delivers payloads to the Moon for $1,200,000 per kilogram.
Astrobotic’s lunar lander Peregrine delivers payloads to the Moon for $1,200,000 per kilogram.
Astrobotic received a NASA CLPS task order on 2019-05-31 for payloads that will go on its Peregrine lander.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander delivers payloads to the Moon for $1,200,000 per kilogram.
Astrobotic’s 2021 Peregrine mission will be the first American-built lunar lander since Apollo.
Astrobotic’s lunar lander Peregrine delivers payloads to the Moon for $1,200,000 per kilogram.
A NASA-designed and provided Navigation Doppler Lidar is flying on Astrobotic’s Peregrine mission in 2021.
Astrobotic is developing the Peregrine lunar lander to deliver payloads to the Moon for companies, governments, universities, non-profits, and individuals for $1,200,000 per kilogram.
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.
A NASA-designed and provided NDL is flying on Astrobotic’s Peregrine mission in 2021.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander received a $79,500,000 NASA award at the same time Intuitive Machines won its first CLPS contract.
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.
NASA contracts for the Peregrine and Griffin landers enabled Astrobotic to grow from 18 employees three years before 2022 to nearly 180 employees in 2022.
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.
Astrobotic unveiled the flight model of its Peregrine lunar lander on 2022-04-20 at the company’s headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Astrobotic unveiled its Peregrine lunar lander at an 2022-04-20 event in Pittsburgh.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander departed Astrobotic headquarters on 2022-11-16 and is headed to test facilities for final acceptance testing prior to its first launch to the Moon in 2023-01-01.