The first moon lander to launch from the US in half a century has “no chance” of making a successful landing on the lunar surface because of a fuel leak, its operators have announced, adding that their goal was now to travel as far as possible before losing power.
Peregrine 1, which aimed to become the first commercial space probe to make a soft landing on the moon, suffered a “critical loss of propellant” hours after liftoff on Monday owing to an “anomaly” in the propulsion system, according to Astrobotic, the US company behind the project.
