Reaching the moon is no easy feat, with America’s Peregrine lunar lander suffering a catastrophic glitch on its way there in a mission last year, and Japan’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 failing in the ...

The latest private lunar lander is a little closer to its destination. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost fired its engines early ...

It has been about seven months since Peregrine, a silvery lander that shot for the moon, burned up over the Pacific ocean.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. On January 12, Peregrine finally reached lunar distance. Of course, the Moon wasn’t ...

In January 2024, Astrobotic's Peregrine lander was launched on a Vulcan rocket for what could have been the first U.S. moon landing in more than half a century. It symbolized years of the hard work ...

Now, it seems those problems will win out, as the company has shared news that Peregrine likely won’t make it to the Moon due to a fuel leak. Update as of 1/10 at 11:34 a.m. EST: Astrobotic has ...

The lander, named Peregrine, will have no one on board. It was developed by American company Astrobotic, whose CEO John Thornton said it will carry Nasa instruments to study the lunar environment ...

This January also saw the launch of the first-ever commercial moon lander, Peregrine. Included on the spacecraft's payloads were the "cremated remains of at least 70 people and one dog ...

Related: As crippled Peregrine moon lander burns up in Earth's atmosphere, Astrobotic 'excited for the next adventure' The Griffin spacecraft will be launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and ...

Last year was not a good one for a lunar lander company based in Pittsburgh ... But within hours of launch, the Peregrine spacecraft developed a propellant leak in its propulsion system.

The year kicked off with two unlucky events. Astrobotic Technology launched its uncrewed, NASA-funded Peregrine Mission One to the moon on January 8. The mission suffered a propellant leak after ...