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The awarded $179,600,000 CLPS task order to Firefly Aerospace is among the largest CLPS task orders to date, behind only the award to Astrobotic for its Griffin lander.
Astrobotic worked with NASA and received inputs from the U.S. Government and the space community to select reentry as the most safe and responsible end-of-mission course of action for Peregrine.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine is scheduled to launch on 2023-12-24 on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur.
Astrobotic is close to beginning hot-fire testing of the methane/liquid oxygen engine that will power Xogdor with a goal of a first launch in early 2025.
Astrobotic is part of the Blue Origin National Team that won a contract for NASA’s Artemis program to develop and provide human and large cargo lunar landing services.
Astrobotic’s 2026 mission will utilize most of the capacity on the Falcon Heavy.
A CLPS task order awarded to Masten Space Systems in 2020 has an uncertain status after Masten filed for bankruptcy and had most of its assets acquired by Astrobotic.
Peregrine completed testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and will return to Astrobotic’s Pittsburgh headquarters for final preparations before shipping to Cape Canaveral.
Astrobotic completed testing of the Peregrine lander on 2023-01-25 and is awaiting ULA’s authorization to ship the spacecraft to Cape Canaveral for pre-launch processing.
The first Commercial Lunar Payload Services missions by Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are scheduled to launch in 2023 carrying NASA payloads to the surface of the Moon.
Astrobotic Technologies has completed testing of its Peregrine lunar lander and is ready to ship it to Cape Canaveral for launch.
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.
Astrobotic plans to begin deploying and demonstrating LunaGrid elements as early as 2026 with the goal of the first operational LunaGrid by 2028 at the lunar south pole.
Astrobotic plans its first operational LunaGrid system for 2028 and expects initial elements could be deployed mid-decade.
Astrobotic plans to launch the Peregrine lander as soon as late 2022 on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur.
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.
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.
United Launch Alliance plans Vulcan Centaur’s first launch in 2021 to carry a lunar lander for Astrobotic.
Astrobotic’s Planetary Mobility department delivered rover hardware to an outside entity for the first time with the CubeRover.