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New US Lunar Lander Runs Into Technical Problem: Company

If all goes to plan, the Peregrine Lunar Lander will touch down on a mid-latitude region of the Moon on February 23 (Credit: AFP)

The first US lunar lander launched in more than five decades has experienced an anomaly preventing it from pointing its solar panels towards the Sun, the company that built the robot said Monday.

Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander separated successfully from United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket overnight from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, and quickly established communications with NASA's Deep Space Network of ground-based radio antennas.

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