Astrobotic's Peregrine Mission One Continues Data Collection Despite Propulsion System Failure

Despite a critical loss of propellant preventing a soft lunar landing, the mission remains operationally stable and continues to gather valuable data.

Astrobotic's Peregrine Mission One, part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, encountered a propulsion system failure shortly after launch, resulting in a critical loss of propellant and preventing a soft lunar landing.
Despite the setback, the Astrobotic team's swift action has kept Peregrine operationally stable and it continues to collect data while it still has power.
Peregrine was able to power up its payloads and establish connections to ground teams using NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) of communication antennas.
All NASA payloads that can power on have received power and are effectively gathering data, although interpreting the results will require some time.
Peregrine is currently more than 225,000 miles from Earth, which is about 94% of lunar distance, and continues on its trajectory to the Moon.