Red Whittaker declared his team would be the first commercial operation to land on the Moon in 2007. That same year, Astrobotic Technology completed a running prototype of a spacecraft called Red Rover.
The Peregrine lander launched on the 8th of January 2024 from Florida's Space Force Station LC-41 aboard the maiden flight of Vulcan Centaur. A propellant leak prevented it from reaching the Moon for a soft or hard landing and ended with a controlled reentry into the Earth's atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean on the 18th of January 2024.
In September 2022, Astrobotic acquired Masten Space Systems which had gone into Chapter 11 bankruptcy two months earlier. Masten was assigned to be Astrobotic's Propulsion and Test Department.
On the 29th of July 2025 NASA announced that MoonRanger would be delivered to the lunar surface by a Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander. The US$5.6 million contract was awarded to Astrobotic and its partner Carnegie Mellon University on the 1st of July 2019.
Griffin Mission Two is planned to be launched in Q4 2026. CubeRover-1 will be carried to the Moon on Griffin Mission One launching no earlier than December 2025.