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@@ -7,9 +7,12 @@ date: 2025-10-28
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+status: enrichment
 priority: high
 tags: [clps, griffin, astrobotic, interlune, lunar-landing, he3-mapping, viper-replacement, landing-reliability]
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+processed_date: 2026-03-18
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 ## Content
@@ -58,3 +61,15 @@ Astrobotic delayed its Griffin Mission One (GM1/Griffin-1) lunar lander to no ea
 PRIMARY CONNECTION: CLPS landing reliability claim (from prior research session — 1 of 5 clean success rate)
 WHY ARCHIVED: Critical milestone for He-3 extraction commercial case and LunaGrid power demo; the correlated risk (both on same lander) is the key insight for KB
 EXTRACTION HINT: The double-payload concentration risk (He-3 camera + LunaGrid-Lite both on Griffin-1) is a novel observation that creates a claim about infrastructure dependency concentration in early lunar commercial activity.
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+## Key Facts
+- Astrobotic Griffin-1 delayed from 2025 to NET July 2026
+- Griffin-1 CLPS task order value: $322M
+- Griffin-1 carries FLIP rover (Venturi Astrolab), Interlune multispectral camera, LunaGrid-Lite, and NASA/ESA/commercial payloads
+- Griffin-1 target: lunar south pole near permanently shadowed regions
+- Griffin-1 launch vehicle: SpaceX Falcon Heavy
+- Griffin-1 replaces cancelled VIPER mission (cancelled July 2024)
+- Current He-3 concentration estimates: 1.4-15 ppb in sunlit regolith, possibly 50 ppb in permanently shadowed regions (from orbital remote sensing only)
+- Astrobotic Peregrine mission failed January 2024 due to propellant leak
+- Griffin lander is first-generation hardware with no flight heritage