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Peregrine Mission One launched on the 8th of January 2024 aboard the maiden Vulcan Centaur rocket, but a propellant leak prevented the lander from reaching the Moon. The spacecraft remained in a highly elliptical Earth orbit and reentered the atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean on the 18th of January 2024.
Astrobotic Technology was founded in 2007 by Carnegie Mellon professor Red Whittaker and his associates. The original goal was to win the Google Lunar X Prize as the first commercial company to land on the Moon.
NASA awarded Astrobotic a US$199.5 million contract in June 2020 to deliver the VIPER rover to the Moon's south pole, targeting a landing in November 2024. NASA cancelled VIPER in July 2024 before the mission flew.
CubeRover is a class of standardized, modular planetary rovers developed by Astrobotic in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, partly funded by NASA. The concept mirrors the CubeSat format to make rover units compatible, modular, and less expensive. Andrew Horchler is the principal investigator of the program.
Astrobotic acquired Masten Space Systems in September 2022, after Masten had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy two months earlier. Masten became Astrobotic's Propulsion and Test Department, bringing with it the Broadsword, a 110 kN 3D-printed aluminum engine.
Astrobotic Technology is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded there in 2007 and John Thornton, its CEO, was named CEO of the Year by the Pittsburgh Technology Council at the 23rd annual Tech50 awards ceremony in September 2019.