NASA Launched Peregrine Mission One to Moon with Five Payloads?
Science and Technology
Peregrine is scheduled to reach the lunar surface on Feb. 23, though it's unclear if that will happen: The lander suffered an anomaly shortly after being deployed from the Vulcan Centaur, and the mission team is working to fix it. If it does make it to the moon, Peregrine will gather vital information about the lunar surface using a suite of five NASA science instruments.the first private American moon spacecraft, Astrobotic's Peregrine lander, successfully launched from Florida on the first-ever mission of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket.
This is the first launch of NASA under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services(CLPS) Initiative
PM1 is the first commercial mission of Astrobotic Technology to land on another
Sharad Bhaskaran, who is of Indian origin, is the mission director.
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