Perhaps most notably, the aerospace company Astrobotic. In 2007, Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic emerged from the corridors of Carnegie Mellon University with an ambitious mission: to lead humanity back ...

In January 2024, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander suffered a propulsion anomaly hours after launch, preventing it from landing on the moon. Its payloads were able to collect some data in cislunar ...

Along with the unsuccessful Astrobotic Peregrine and the partially successful Intuitive Machines Odysseus missions of early 2024, it looks like the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program still ...

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The fourth, Astrobotic's Peregrine spacecraft, suffered a failure during launch early last year, causing it to lose its propellant drift helplessly through space. Astrobotic eventually decided to ...

It will be the fourth CLPS mission to fly. The first was in January 2024, when Astrobotic's ill-fated Peregrine Mission One experienced a fuel leak after launch and fell back to Earth. The second ...

The fourth CLPS mission, by Astrobotic Technology of Pittsburgh, missed the moon entirely last year when the propulsion system of its Peregrine spacecraft malfunctioned soon after launch.

KBR has won a U.S. Air Force contract worth approximately $176 million to provide equipment maintenance and operations support for space domain awareness technologies at the Air Force Maui Optical ...

MALCOLM DENEMARK/FLORIDA TODAY / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Athena will mark the fourth CLPS mission to launch in as many years, and another with Astrobotic will launch later this year.

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and others from companies such as Firefly Aerospace and Astrobotic, as precursor expeditions ahead of more risky crewed missions. Athena's landing attempt is expected March 6, and its mission on ...

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