Ten days after its launch, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander fell back to Earth, ending a trip to the moon’s orbital distance and back that was doomed by a propellant leak.

Doomed Peregrine Moon lander falls back to Earth

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology's lunar lander Peregrine burnt up as it re-entered Earth. Peregrine was expected to conclude its journey at around 4 pm ET on Thursday as it smashed into Earth's atmosphere over a remote area of the South Pacific Ocean, CNN reported on Friday (Jan 19) Astrobotic Technology announced early in the day that it lost contact with the Peregrine lunar lander on Thursday afternoon.

US: Astrobotic's Peregrine lander burns up after failing Moon mission

Peregrine spacecraft, the private lunar lander launched by Astrobotic, may have failed to make a soft landing on the Moon, but made news for each day it was in the space.

Peregrine lander's journey to end in collision with Earth

The ill-fated Moon lander launched by a private US firm earlier this month will soon be entering Earth’s atmosphere, where it is expected to turn into ashes before reaching the ground, the parent company of the lander said Saturday (Jan 13).

Doomed private US Moon lander now destined for Earth, to ‘burn up’ in atmosphere

The doomed Peregrine Moon lander of USA’s Astrobotic company has sent back another in-space selfie to its home planet, this time with Earth ‘flashing smile’ in the background.

Another pale blue dot: Failed moon mission Peregrine clicks 'couple selfie' with Earth flashing a smile

Astrobotic, the company that launched the United States' first private lunar lander mission, said on Tuesday (Jan 9) that the mission was a failure. With this, America's hopes of placing the first spacecraft on Moon since the Apollo era were dashed.

'No chance of landing': First-ever US private lunar lander mission fails, firm blames valve fault

The United States' Peregrine spacecraft, which was headed towards the Moon and was carrying cremated human remains, abandoned the Moon landing less than 24 hours after the vehicle took off but malfunctioned because of a fuel leak.

US Peregrine mission with cremated human remains abandons Moon landing; first photo shows anomaly

An American spacecraft, which was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday (Jan 8) with an aim to perform a controlled landing on the Moon, has suffered a technical issue.

Peregrine Mission One: Private mission to land on Moon suffers ‘anomaly’ after entering safe operational state

Mexico will launch its first mission of sending autonomous mini-robots to the Moon for soil exploration in a scientific first. Gustavo Medina Tanco, head of the space instrumentation laboratory at the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Institute for Nuclear Sciences (UNAM), said the first-of-its-kind scientific mission is a part of the Colmena project, that envisions the two-wheeled bots scrambling across the lunar surface while taking sophisticated measurements.

Mexico to send mini-robots to Moon for soil exploration in scientific first

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