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This indicates that the capsule crashed in a controlled manner over the South Pacific at around 10 p.m. CET on Thursday and burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere, the Pittsburgh-based company announced on the X platform (formerly Twitter). However, there is still no independent confirmation of this.
The private mission launched a week ago from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in the US state of Florida. However, there were problems shortly after the start. Due to a malfunction in the drive system, there was, among other things, a fuel leak. The engineers temporarily managed to stabilize the capsule, but the goal of a moon landing had to be abandoned.
- Also read: Fuel leak: First commercial US moon landing failed
The capsule was supposed to land in February in an area called Sinus Viscositatis (Bay of Stickiness), completing the first – unmanned – US moon landing since the Apollo mission over 50 years ago. “Peregrine” (in German: peregrine falcon) initially flew further and even reached the distance that the moon is from the earth.
Controlled crash
After consultation with the US space agency NASA, among others, the decision was made to allow the capsule to crash in a controlled manner, Astrobotic announced a few days ago.
Astrobotic and the US space agency NASA have announced a press conference for (today) Friday at 7 p.m. CET.
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