It seems NASA's ice-hunting VIPER rover won't be hitching a ride to the moon as a part of a private sector partnership, as the space agency had previously sought. “We appreciate the efforts of those ...

NASA's VIPER, or the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, can be seen in this artist's impression. The only consistent thing about NASA’s VIPER lunar rover is that the road to the moon has ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has canceled plans to find a commercial partner to launch a robotic lunar rover and will instead pursue “alternative approaches” to fly the mission. In a May 7 statement, NASA said ...

Astrobotic has received a $200M contract to send a NASA rover to the moon’s south pole as part of the agency’s resource-mapping mission in late 2023. The Pittsburgh-based company will launch the ...

It's not uncommon for space exploration missions to be scrubbed or repurposed, but what the American space agency NASA is doing with a little Moon rover called VIPER is getting ridiculous. Especially ...

In a recent update from NASA’s official blog, the VIPER rover (Volatiles Investigating Polar Explorer Rover) mission, initially aimed to be a partnership with private industry, has taken an unexpected ...

Recently, some of the players in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program met with the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, part of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. The ...

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NASA is set to hold a teleconference on Wednesday to announce its selected payload delivery services provider that will support the agency’s mission to study the moon’s south pole. NASA said Tuesday ...

In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced plans on August 5 to build a nuclear fission reactor for deployment on the lunar surface in 2030. Doing so would ...

It seems NASA's ice-hunting VIPER rover won't be hitching a ride to the moon as a part of a private sector partnership, as the space agency had previously sought. The Volatiles Investigating Polar ...