Astrobotic spent 19 years building lunar landers without a venture-capital war chest, and the reason it just agreed to sell for $162 million has less to do with Peregrine’s failed flight than with the NASA Moon Base clock Voyager is betting it can outrun

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Astrobotic launched its first lunar lander on January 8, 2024, at 2:18 a.m. Eastern, atop the maiden flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. About 92 minutes after separation from the upper stage, a single helium pressure-control valve called PCV2 failed to fully reseat. Helium began flooding the oxidizer tank. Within roughly a minute the [...] The post Astrobotic spent 19 years building lunar landers without a venture-capital war chest, and the reason it just agreed to sell for $162 million has less to do with Peregrine’s failed flight than with the NASA Moon Base clock Voyager is betting it can outrun appeared first on Space Daily .