After more than a week of attempting to salvage the mission, Astrobotic said it will opt to let the Peregrine spacecraft burn up in Earth’s atmosphere to avoid creating debris around the Moon.

Notwithstanding this complication, the lander's engine remains operational. Should everything have proceeded as planned, Peregrine would have become the inaugural commercial lunar lander as well ...

The launch of the Peregrine lander is momentous for quite a few reasons, chief among them the fact that it will be the first U.S. lander to touch down on the lunar surface since the Apollo program ...

The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early Monday hours from Florida aboard a ...

On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...

Similar to Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology, which developed the Peregrine lunar lander that met a fiery end during its first attempted mission in January 2024, the company has its roots in ...

Update #17 for Peregrine Mission One: "Since the Peregrine lunar lander’s anomaly occurred 6 days ago, we have been evaluating how best to safely end the spacecraft’s mission…" While the ...

Blue Origin could also launch its MK1 Lunar Lander pathfinder mission in 2025, while Astrobotic's Griffin Mission 1 is also slated for 2025, following its failed attempt with the Peregrine lunar ...

Two commercial lunar landers are currently on their way to the Moon, and at least two more are set to follow this year under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Meanwhile, ...

The MoonHouse will hitch a ride with the lunar lander Resilience from Japanese company ispace, launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...