Astrobotic’s Peregrine moon lander has beamed home another in-space selfie, a memorable shot that captured a sliver of its home planet. The photo, which Astrobotic posted on X on Tuesday afternoon (Jan. 9), shows one of the Peregrine moon lander‘s legs (at bottom center) as well as the Pocari Sweet Lunar Dream Time Capsule, which […]
Astrobotic has homed in on a potential cause for the problems plaguing its Peregrine moon lander. Peregrine launched early Monday morning (Jan. 8) atop United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) new Vulcan Centaur rocket, with the goal of becoming the first private spacecraft to land softly on the moon. That dream was dashed, however, by a propellant […]
The first US moon landing attempt in more than 50 years appears to be doomed after a private company’s spacecraft developed a “critical” fuel leak just hours after Monday’s launch. Private company Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology estimated that the lander, carrying a piece of technology developed by UK scientists, would start losing power in about 40 […]
SHAMONG, N.J. (AP) — A Philadelphia television news helicopter returning from an assignment photographing Christmas lights earlier this week plunged into a southern New Jersey forest “at very high speed,” broke apart, then caught fire after it crashed, killing both occupants, a federal crash investigator said Friday. Todd Gunther, an investigator with the National Transportation […]