Thank you Peregrine!⁣ ⁣ The first robotic commercial flight for NASA has come to an end. After 10 days in space, Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One made a controlled re-entry over the Pacific on Jan. 18 and burned up in the atmosphere. Following a successful launch and separation from the rocket on Jan. 8, the spacecraft experienced a propulsion issue preventing Peregrine from softly landing on the Moon.⁣ ⁣ Four out of five NASA payloads on Peregrine successfully powered on and collected data while in flight: Linear Energy Transfer Spectrometer (LETS), Near-Infrared Volatile Spectrometer System (NIRVSS), Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), and Peregrine Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometer (PITMS). NASA science teams are currently working to interpret the results. ⁣ Astrobotic was the first commercial vendor to launch a mission to the Moon as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. There are seven additional CLPS deliveries awarded to multiple companies, with more f...