If Blue Ghost sticks the landing, it will become the first U.S. company to make a fully successful touchdown on the lunar surface. The first to try was Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander, which ...

Thornton said Astrobotic was building elements of the lander’s propulsion system, with “good solutions” for the valve problem that crippled its first lunar lander, Peregrine, shortly after ...

Astrolab's FLIP moon rover has replaced NASA's VIPER vehicle on the first-ever mission of Astrobotic's Griffin lunar lander, which is scheduled to launch in late 2025.

The story of VIPER, with its twists and turns, proves the wisdom of NASA’s turn to the commercial sector for partnerships ...

Last year was not a good one for a lunar lander company ... CEO of Astrobotic, said in an interview. "Certainly the challenges we had with Peregrine were unexpected, and a big setback.

Astrobotic was previously set to deliver a rover developed by NASA that was cut due to budget concerns. Astrobotic's Griffin-1 lander will no longer be flying to the moon empty handed. Last year ...

HOUSTON—Astrobotic and Venturi Astrolab have partnered in an effort to deliver Astrolab’s FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform (FLIP), a test lunar lander, to the Moon’s south pole region by year ...

Private Moon company Astrobotic’s mission has new life after finding a match made in heaven with its new customer, Astrolab, following NASA’s decision to pull the plug on the agency’s VIPER Moon rover ...

Today, Venturi Astrolab (Astrolab) and Astrobotic announced that Astrobotic’s Griffin lander will deliver an ... The rover, currently known as FLIP (FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform), will be ...

Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to fly on the first-ever mission of its Griffin moon lander. Griffin was originally supposed to deliver NASA's ice-hunting VIPER ...