Facts for Prelims (FFP)
Source: Live Mint
Context: A private US spacecraft, part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, took off with the Peregrine lander module and Vulcan rocket built by private space companies.
- This mission aims to be the first US spacecraft to land on the Moon in over 50 years and would have marked the first landing of a private spacecraft on the Moon.
- The Peregrine Mission-1, a private lunar lander, encountered an “anomaly” and will be unable to make its planned soft landing on the moon due to a propellant leak.
