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While United Launch Alliance was celebrating a successful launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral early Monday, its main customer was troubleshooting issues with its lunar lander that threaten its chance to get to the moon. Astrobotic Technology’s Peregrine lunar lander looked to be on its way after ULA’s Vulcan Centaur, making its first-ever flight shot into the Space Coast sky at 2:18 a.m. Eastern time from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41. The Pittsburgh-based company’s lander was the first to launch under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract, and it did manage a successful sep…

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