Tag: Astrobotic Technology
Astrobotic announced today that their Peregrine lunar lander successfully completed all integration milestones and was mated with United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket payload adapter on November 16, 2023. After a 3-week campaign to fuel and complete final checkouts, the...
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander undergoing EMI/EMC testing at Dayton T. Brown Inc’s commercial facility. Pittsburgh, PA – December 20, 2022 – Astrobotic announced today that their Peregrine lunar lander has completed electromagnetic interference (EMI/EMC) testing early and will arrive...
Pittsburgh, PA – November 3, 2022 – Astrobotic announced today that its terrain relative navigation (TRN) landing suite for lunar landers, Optical Precision Autonomous Landing (OPAL), was fully validated during a week-long terrestrial flight test campaign above the mountains of...
Paris, France – September 22, 2022 – Today at the 73rd International Astronautical Congress in Paris, Astrobotic and Lunar Logistics Services (LLS) announced they have been competitively selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to fly an innovative...
Astrobotic announced a new Lunar Regolith Lab is open at its headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This test facility is one of only a handful in the United States filled with industry-standard GRC-1 “regolith simulant”, or granules, designed to mimic the...
The new ALIN system will enable satellite servicing and mapping of planetary bodies FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ON AUGUST 11, 2021 at 9am EST – Pittsburgh, PA Astrobotic wins a Phase I NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract...
NASA Approves MoonRanger Rover for Final Construction Astrobotic announced today that MoonRanger, an autonomous rover that will explore the lunar South Pole in 2022, passed NASA’s Key Decision Point (KDP) review and is in the final stage of...
DLR – German Aerospace Center Becomes Third Space Agency to Join Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) joins a mission with Astrobotic to land a special German-built instrument on the Moon onboard Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander in...
The Griffin lunar lander will carry NASA’s rover to search for water ice in 2023. Astrobotic announced today its selection of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket in a competitive commercial procurement to launch its Griffin lunar lander to the...