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Astrobotic is a member of the Blue Origin-led National Team developing the human lunar lander.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander was scheduled to launch in May 2023 on the first Vulcan Centaur but United Launch Alliance delayed that launch because of an anomaly during testing of a Centaur upper stage in March 2023.
Astrobotic’s third lunar mission is targeted to launch in 2026 aboard a Falcon Heavy from SpaceX’s facilities at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Astrobotic’s third lunar lander mission will launch to the Moon’s South Pole in 2026.
Astrobotic’s third lunar lander mission will launch to the Moon’s south pole in 2026 to deliver payload customer instruments and cargo from around the world.
Astrobotic’s 2026 mission will utilize most of the capacity on the Falcon Heavy.
Astrobotic’s Griffin mission will launch on a Falcon Heavy in late 2024.
Astrobotic purchased a Falcon Heavy to deliver medium-class payloads to the lunar south pole.
Astrobotic will launch a third mission to the Moon in 2026 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
Astrobotic’s third lunar mission is targeted to launch in 2026 aboard a Falcon Heavy from SpaceX’s facilities at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Astrobotic will offer satellite deployments to place customer spacecraft into cislunar space as part of the 2026 mission.
Astrobotic is set to launch its Peregrine mission as soon as 2023-05-04 pending the status of its Vulcan Centaur rocket.
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.
Astrobotic has won two CLPS task orders, including the Peregrine lander scheduled to launch in May on the first Vulcan Centaur rocket and a 2024 mission to deliver NASA’s VIPER lunar rover.
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.
NASA announced on 2023-02-02 that Astrobotic’s Peregrine mission will attempt a landing near the Gruithuisen Domes on the northeast edge of Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon’s near side.
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.
NASA awarded one of the first CLPS task orders to Astrobotic for the Peregrine mission in May 2019 and identified Lacus Mortis as the landing location at that time.
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 and United Launch Alliance have not announced a formal launch date for the Peregrine mission.