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  • Peregrine lander: American Moon mission destroyed over Pacific Ocean

    01/18/2024 6:03:18 PM PST · by Red Badger · 41 replies
    BBC ^ | 18th January 2024, 04:41 CST | By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent
    A US spacecraft launched last week to try to land on the Moon has ended its mission in flames over the Pacific. Peregrine One suffered a propulsion fault that scuppered any prospect of a lunar touch-down and it was commanded to destroy itself instead. The private operator, Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic, directed the craft into Earth's atmosphere to burn up. A tracking station in Canberra, Australia, confirmed loss of signal with Peregrine at 20:59 GMT. Little or no remains of Peregrine were expected to survive intact to the ocean surface. And even if they did, they should have impacted far away from...