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Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander is planned to support a mission at the end of 2022.
Astrobotic acquired Masten Space Systems on 2022-09-13.
Neither Intuitive Machines nor Impulse Space raised their bids at the auction, resulting in Astrobotic winning the auction.
A federal bankruptcy court in Delaware approved on 2022-09-08 the results of an auction in which Astrobotic submitted a high bid of $4,500,000 for substantially all the assets of Masten Space Systems.
Astrobotic was selected by NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Sequential Phase II program to develop, test, and fly lunar night survival and communication technologies onboard its CubeRover platform.
Astrobotic has been subcontracted by Advanced Cooling Technologies on a separate NASA Sequential SBIR worth $1,800,000 to develop, integrate, and demonstrate lunar night thermal systems aboard lunar rovers and landers.
Astrobotic has been subcontracted by Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. on a separate NASA Sequential SBIR valued at $1,800,000 to develop, integrate, and demonstrate lunar night thermal systems aboard lunar rovers and landers.
Astrobotic was selected by NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Sequential Phase II program to develop, test, and fly lunar night survival and communication technologies onboard the company’s CubeRover platform.
Astrobotic Technology of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania received a $6,200,000 award for vertical solar array development.
Astrobotic Technology of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania received a $6,200,000 award to develop a vertical solar array prototype.
Astrobotic was selected by NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Sequential Phase II program to develop, test, and fly lunar night survival and communication technologies onboard its CubeRover platform.
Astrobotic has been subcontracted by Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. on a separate NASA Sequential SBIR contract worth $1,800,000 to develop, integrate, and demonstrate lunar night thermal systems aboard lunar rovers and landers.
Masten received a stalking-horse bid of $4,200,000 from Astrobotic that includes a SpaceX launch credit valued at $14,000,000.
Testing with Peregrine and the Deep Space Network was conducted over two weeks and culminated in confirmation that Peregrine can successfully transmit data and receive commands through the Deep Space Network to Astrobotic’s Mission Control Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Masten began serious conversations with Astrobotic on 2025-08-03, that led to the asset sale agreement.
The Astrobotic agreement includes up to $1,400,000 in debtor-in-possession financing that can serve as a credit toward the asset purchase.
Astrobotic agreed to make the stalking-horse bid for substantially all of Masten’s assets by 2025-08-10.
The stalking-horse agreement with Astrobotic sets a minimum price for the sale of Masten’s assets and allows Masten to seek higher bids through an auction process running through early September 2025.
NASA postponed the launch of the VIPER mission by one year to perform additional testing on the Griffin lander that Astrobotic will use to deliver VIPER to the lunar south pole through CLPS.
NASA awarded Astrobotic a CLPS task order in June 2020 originally valued at $199,500,000 to transport VIPER.