The Peregrine Lander precisely and safely delivers payloads to lunar orbit and the lunar surface on each mission.
Created: 2018-11-22
Updated: 2022-10-21
Company - Astrobotic
Service - Peregrine
- Classification
- Cargo Transportation & Landers
- Category
- Transport Service (LEO-Moon)
- Status
- 3) Development
- First launch
- 2022
Awarded $79.5 million by NASA and has proposed to fly as many as 14 payloads to Lacus Mortis, a large crater on the near side of the Moon, by July 2021.
Selected to develop and lead a new lunar payload delivery provider (commercial payload) service onboard the Dynetics Human Landing System (HLS).
NASA awarded Astrobotic with nearly $200 million for launching the rover, called VIPER, and landing it near the moon’s south pole in late 2023.
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