{"id":61482,"date":"2019-09-24T20:38:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacebit-astrobotic-bring-1st-uk-commercial-payload-to-the-moon-2\/"},"modified":"2019-09-24T20:38:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:38:56","slug":"spacebit-astrobotic-bring-1st-uk-commercial-payload-to-the-moon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacebit-astrobotic-bring-1st-uk-commercial-payload-to-the-moon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacebit, Astrobotic Bring 1st UK Commercial Payload to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>U.K.-based<strong> Spacebit<\/strong> signed a joint agreement with <strong>Astrobotic<\/strong> to begin commercial and scientific lunar exploration with the first mission in 2021 on the Peregrine lunar lander. Astrobotic\u2019s Peregrine lunar lander will be launched on a Vulcan Centaur rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch will carry the first lunar lander from American soil since Apollo.&nbsp; With this announcement, Spacebit joins Astrobotic\u2019s existing manifest of 16-signed contracts toward Peregrine Mission One.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of Spacebit, Pavlo Tanasyuk, commented \u201cWe could not be more excited to fly this mission with Astrobotic. This mission will result in the first payload from the UK to reach the Moon surface and mark the beginning of a new era in commercial space exploration for Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAstrobotic is very excited to bring Spacebit\u2019s first payload to the Moon. Spacebit has pioneered a captivating new way of working on the lunar surface, and we look forward to more details being released soon,\u201d said Astrobotic CEO John Thornton.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K.-based Spacebit signed a joint agreement with Astrobotic to begin commercial and scientific lunar exploration with the first mission in 2021 on the Peregrine lunar lander. Astrobotic\u2019s Peregrine lunar lander will be launched on a Vulcan Centaur rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch will carry the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}