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Astrobotic’s Pittsburgh headquarters is an approximately 50,000-square-foot facility dedicated to developing and operating lunar spacecraft.
Astrobotic’s Pittsburgh headquarters is an approximately 50,000-square-foot facility dedicated to developing and operating lunar spacecraft.
NASA awarded Astrobotic Technology a $199,500,000 task order under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract to deliver the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the lunar south pole on the Griffin lander.
Astrobotic conducted an LHD testing campaign in the Mojave Desert in 2014 that demonstrated full terrain relative navigation and hazard detection together aboard a rocket-powered lander.
Astrobotic was selected to receive funding for its LiDAR-based Hazard Detection sensor (LHD) as part of NASA’s Flight Opportunities TechFlights solicitation.
LHD testing will take place in early 2023 and will be used to support landing Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander on the Moon’s surface in late 2023.
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.
The IM-1, IM-2, and Astrobotic’s Peregrine missions are scheduled to launch in 2022.
Astrobotic opened a Lunar Regolith Lab at its headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 2021-11-09.
Astrobotic will deliver its second CubeRover to NASA early next year after mobility testing in the simulant lab, a thermal vacuum chamber, a vibration table, and other offsite test facilities.
Astrobotic has partnered with Hellenic Technology of Robotics to develop space-grade wheels for the CubeRover.
VIPER is scheduled to arrive at the Moon in late 2023 delivered by Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander on a mission arranged through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
SpaceX won a Falcon Heavy contract from Astrobotic in April to launch the Griffin lunar lander carrying NASA’s VIPER rover as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Astrobotic's ALIN software solution uses LiDAR Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for navigation and mapping in space.
Astrobotic won a Phase I NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to further develop sensors for three-dimensional mapping of uncooperative spacecraft and planetary bodies in real time.
Astrobotic’s first Peregrine lander will launch on the inaugural United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur mission in 2022.
Astrobotic won the Watts on the Moon Challenge grand prize for Mission Activity 1, a conceptual mission to deliver power from a solar array on the rim of a permanently shadowed lunar polar crater to a NASA rover on the crater floor.
Astrobotic partnered with Eternal Light under a collaboration called AstroLight to win a prize for Mission Activity 2 of the Watts on the Moon Challenge.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander had been scheduled to launch in late 2021 as the payload on the inaugural United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur launch.
Major James Mathews of Civil Air Patrol drove more than 483 km to deliver a special microchip to Astrobotic.