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Astrobotic<\/strong> announced that the Peregrine lunar lander arrived safely in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was unloaded at Astrotech facilities where it will be integrated with the United Launch Alliance (ULA)\u2019s<\/strong> Vulcan for launch on December 24, 2023.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s incredible to realize that we are just a short time away from our Peregrine spacecraft beginning its journey to the Moon,<\/em>\u201d says John Thornton<\/strong>, Astrobotic CEO, \u201cAfter years of dedication and hard work, we are so close to having our moonshot. We invite you to follow along as Peregrine, with seven countries represented aboard, launches to the Moon and attempts one of the first successful landings of an American spacecraft since Apollo.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs we know, space is a difficult environment. We\u2019re ready for launch after successfully completing a battery of industry-standard acceptance testing so Peregrine has the best chance for mission success<\/em>,\u201d says Sharad Bhaskaran<\/strong>, Astrobotic\u2019s Peregrine Mission One Director. \u201cPeregrine and the team are ready. After launch, we will separate from the Vulcan Centaur and establish power and communications with the spacecraft to guide it to the Moon. Then, we will attempt a historic autonomous landing on the lunar surface.\u201d <\/p>\n After Peregrine\u2019s integration with Vulcan, the launch vehicle is slated to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41 (LC-41). Once Peregrine separates from the ULA rocket, Astrobotic\u2019s Mission Control Center (AMCC) will take control of Peregrine. Astrobotic will then attempt a soft landing at the Gruithuisen Domes and support lunar surface payload operations for payload customers for approximately 10 days.<\/p>\n Peregrine is carrying 21 payloads from governments, companies, universities, and NASA\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Astrobotic announced that the Peregrine lunar lander arrived safely in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was unloaded at Astrotech facilities where it will be integrated with the United Launch Alliance (ULA)\u2019s Vulcan for launch on December 24, 2023. \u201cIt\u2019s incredible to realize that we are just a short time away from our Peregrine spacecraft beginning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[26,25,20],"class_list":["post-8050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050"}],"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=8050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}