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Astrobotic plans to launch the Peregrine lander as soon as late 2022 on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur.
NASA is adding $67,800,000 to the Astrobotic CLPS task order, bringing the award value to $320,400,000 with previous increases.
VIPER did not complete its critical design review until October 2021, more than a year after the CLPS award to Astrobotic.
Griffin is equipped with Astrobotic’s Terrain Relative Navigation (TRN) landing technology to support safe and precise landings.
NASA and Astrobotic completed egress testing with prototypes of NASA’s VIPER rover and Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander on 2022-06-16.
The testing that proved the wireless charging system can function through the 14-Earth-day lunar night was carried out by Astrobotic and co-authored with NASA Glenn Research Center on 2022-06-16.
When deployed on the lunar surface, Astrobotic’s wireless charging system would deliver power from an Astrobotic lunar lander or Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT) to power rovers, habitats, in-situ resource utilization plants, and other large surface infrastructure to survive the lunar night.
Astrobotic scheduled a Preliminary Design Review for the wireless charging system in early July 2022 and is manufacturing a space-rated engineering model in tandem.
Astrobotic won two NASA SBIR Phase II contracts worth a combined $1,500,000.
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 won two NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contracts worth a combined $1,500,000 to advance novel LiDAR software solutions.
Astrobotic received a $750,000 SBIR Phase II contract for its HazNet system.
Astrobotic received a $750,000 SBIR Phase II contract for its LiDAR-Inertial Navigation (ALIN) solution for rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking (RPOD).
Astrobotic unveiled its Peregrine lunar lander at an 2022-04-20 event in Pittsburgh.
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.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson attended the 2022-04-20 event at Astrobotic’s Pittsburgh headquarters.
Astrobotic expects Peregrine to launch in the fourth quarter of 2022, a schedule that depends on both the readiness of the lander and of ULA’s Vulcan.
Peregrine is a pathfinder for Astrobotic’s larger Griffin lander that is being built to deliver NASA’s VIPER rover to the lunar south pole in late 2023.
Astrobotic Technology displayed its nearly complete Peregrine lunar lander at its Pittsburgh headquarters on 2022-04-20.
Astrobotic unveiled the flight model of its Peregrine lunar lander on 2022-04-20 at the company’s headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.