Astrobotic’s Peregrine-1 spacecraft has “no chance” of landing on the moon after it sprang a propellant leak, the company says.

The problem occurred in the first few hours of the lunar lander’s journey into space.

The firm added that there is enough fuel left in the lander to allow it to operate “as a spacecraft” while engineers decide what it’s new mission in orbit will be.

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