CLPS Task Order 2AB: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- January 8, 2024
- Declared end
- January 18, 2024
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
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Description published by the archive
The NASA payload suite on Astrobotic Peregrine Mission 1 was slated to provide some of the first measurements from the surface of the Moon since Apollo, but it did not land on the lunar surface due to an anomaly with the propulsion system. The spacecraft was targeting a landing within Sinus Viscositatis in order to provide complementary and meaningful data to NASA’s Lunar-VISE instrument suite, which will land on the nearby Gruithuisen Domes in 2026. The NASA payloads aboard Astrobotic Peregrine 1 were focusing on characterizing the radiation environment in space and on the surface, volatiles present on or near the surface, and surface temperatures and mineralogy. The payload also included the Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) which could have enabled precise laser ranging from orbiting spacecraft. Because the Peregrine spacecraft never landed on the Moon, all of the data acquired during the mission occurred in cislunar space. This allowed for measurements of the radiation environment experienced by the spacecraft during the mission as well as measurements of volatiles released by the spacecraft during operations and as a result of the anomaly experienced in the propulsion system. Except for the LRA, all other NASA payloads were powered on at various points and collected science data.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.clps_to_2ab
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/