To light up the deep night sky, a Falcon 9 rocket thundered away from Florida early Thursday, boosting a commercially built robotic lander on a flight to the moon. If successful, it will be the first American spacecraft to reach the moon’s surface in more than fifty years. It was SpaceX’s second flight in less … Read more
The Peregrine spacecraft — launched last week in the first U.S. mission to pursue a moon landing in more than 50 years — is on its way back to Earth and is expected to make a fiery return after a critical fuel leak scuppered its lunar ambitions. The failed moon landing attempt is a setback … Read more
The Peregrine spacecraft — launched last week in the first U.S. mission to pursue a moon landing in more than 50 years — is on its way back to Earth and is expected to make a fiery return after a critical fuel leak scuppered its lunar ambitions. The failed moon landing attempt is a setback … Read more
NEW ORLEANS – It was just two days ago that Peregrine, the inaugural private lander contracted under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, brilliantly rocketed into space aboard the Vulcan’s first private flight United Launch Alliance rocket. Just hours into the journey, Peregrine began to fail. Astrobotic, the company behind the spacecraft, continues to provide … Read more