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Astrobotic Technology is a company that looks to offer affordable space robotic technology as well as work towards planetary missions. The company was founded by Red Whittaker in 2008, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Astrobotic Technology is interested in developing and providing hardware systems for space companies, governments, and universities. The vision of the company is to make space missions practical for scientific, social, and a spectrum of business reasons. They look to use robotics to reduce costs, improve capabilities, and to enhance reliability. The company has developed robotics for terrain relative navigation, lunar surface operations, computing systems, and lunar landers named the Griffin and the Peregrine.
The company has a rideshare model to enable other space startups to benefit from Astrobotic's technology, and to lower the barrier to enter commercial space. Astrobotic is partnered with NASA's Catalyst and Flight Opportunities to refine their technologies.
