The 2024 Technical.ly Award-winning company, founded to compete for the Google Lunar X Prize, began as a small startup amid the backdrop of an economic downturn and waning lunar ambitions after NASA’s ...

The addition of the Astrolab rover is their team's version of making lemonade out of lemons. Thornton showed Pittsburgh's Action News 4 around Astrobotic's mission control center, which is usually ...

Thornton said the 10-day spaceflight after launching on ULA's Vulcan rocket was challenging, but it gave the Astrobotic team experience operating its first spaceflight mission and learning what ...

A US startup’s robotic spacecraft is poised to attempt a lunar landing on Sunday, the first in a series of upcoming missions by companies hoping to expand commercial activity on the moon.

The lander, named Peregrine, will have no one on board. It was developed by American company Astrobotic, whose CEO John Thornton said it will carry Nasa instruments to study the lunar environment ...

HOUSTON—Astrobotic and Venturi Astrolab have partnered in an effort to deliver Astrolab’s FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform (FLIP), a test lunar lander, to the Moon’s south pole region by year ...

Thornton said the 10-day spaceflight after launching on ULA's Vulcan rocket was challenging, but it gave the Astrobotic team experience operating its first spaceflight mission and learning what worked ...