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US COMPANY SAYS ITS MOON LANDING ATTEMPT IS IN JEOPARDY BECAUSE OF AN ENGINE
PROBLEM



United Launch Alliance launches its next-generation Vulcan rocket on its maiden
flight at 2:18 a.m. EST Monday Jan. 8, 2024, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape
Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. (Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via
AP)
Associated Press | By Marcia Dunn
Published January 08, 2024 at 1:24am ET

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years was in
jeopardy Monday after a private company's newly launched spacecraft developed
engine trouble.

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology raced to orient its lander toward the sun
so the solar panel could collect sunlight, as battery power dwindled. Flight
controllers' efforts paid off to charge the battery, as a special team assessed
the status of what was termed "a failure in the propulsion system."

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The problem arose about seven hours after Monday's predawn liftoff from Cape
Canaveral Space Force Station. United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket provided
the lift for Astrobotic's lander, named Peregrine, putting it on a long,
roundabout path to the moon.

If the propulsion system is at fault, it "threatens the ability of the
spacecraft to soft land on the moon" on Feb. 23, the company said in a
statement.

"We continue to gather data and report our best assessment of what we see," the
company added.

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Astrobotic was aiming to be the first private business to successfully land on
the moon, something only four countries have accomplished. A second lander from
a Houston company is due to launch next month. NASA gave the two companies
millions to build and fly their own lunar landers.

The space agency wants the privately owned landers to scope out the place before
astronauts arrive while delivering tech and science experiments for the space
agency, other countries and universities as well as odds and ends for other
customers. Astrobotic's contract with NASA for the Peregrine lander was $108
million.

Before the flight, NASA's Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for
exploration, noted that while using private companies to make deliveries to the
moon will be cheaper and quicker than going the usual government route, there
will be added risk. He stressed that the space agency was willing to accept that
risk, noting Monday: "Each success and setback are opportunities to learn and
grow."

The last time the U.S. launched a moon-landing mission was in December 1972.
Apollo 17's Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt became the 11th and 12th men to
walk on the moon, closing out an era that has remained NASA's pinnacle.

The space agency's new Artemis program — named after the twin sister of Apollo
in Greek mythology — looks to return astronauts to the moon's surface within the
next few years. First will be a lunar fly-around with four astronauts, possibly
before the end of the year.

Highlighting Monday's moonshot was the long-delayed initial test flight of the
Vulcan rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The 202-foot (61-meter)
rocket is essentially an upgraded version of ULA's hugely successful workhorse
Atlas V, which is being phased out along with the company's Delta IV. Jeff
Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, provided the Vulcan's two main engines.

ULA declared success once the lander was free of the rocket's upper stage,
nearly an hour into the flight and before the spacecraft's propulsion system
malfunctioned and prevented the solar panel from properly pointing toward the
sun. The lander is equipped with engines and thrusters for maneuvering, not only
during the cruise to the moon but for lunar descent.

Landing on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The Soviet Union
and the U.S. racked up a string of successful moon landings in the 1960s and
70s, before putting touchdowns on pause. China joined the elite club in 2013 and
India in 2023. But last year also saw landers from Russia and a private Japanese
company slam into the moon. An Israeli nonprofit crashed in 2019.

Next month, SpaceX will provide the lift for a lander from Intuitive Machines.
The Nova-C lander's more direct one-week route could see both spacecraft
attempting to land within days or even hours of one another.

Besides flying experiments for NASA, Astrobotic drummed up its own freight
business, packing the 6-foot-tall (1.9-meter-tall) Peregrine lander with
everything from a chip of rock from Mount Everest and toy-size cars from Mexico
that will catapult to the lunar surface and cruise around, to the ashes and DNA
of deceased space enthusiasts, including "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry
and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke.

The Navajo Nation recently sought to have the launch delayed because of the
human remains. saying it would be a "profound desecration" of a celestial body
revered by Native Americans. Astrobotic chief executive John Thornton said the
December objections came too late but promised to try to find "a good path
forward" with the Navajo for future missions.

One of the spaceflight memorial companies that bought room on the lander,
Celestis, said in a statement that no single culture or religion owns the moon
and should not be able to veto a mission. More remains are on the rocket's upper
stage, which was boosted into a perpetual orbit around the sun reaching as far
out as Mars.

Cargo fares for Peregrine ranged from a few hundred dollars to $1.2 million per
kilogram (2.2 pounds), not nearly enough for Astrobotic to break even. But for
this first flight, that's not the point, according to Thornton.

"A lot of people's dreams and hopes are riding on this," Thornton said days
before the flight.

___

The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is
solely responsible for all content.

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