Last year, NASA canceled the VIPER (“Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover”) in a move that scandalized proponents ...

Once scheduled to prospect for lunar ice aboard the VIPER lunar rover, the Honeybee Robotics TRIDENT ice drill will now only operate from the fixed landing site of the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission.

Space robotics specialist GITAI has completed a concept study for a mechanical arm that would be ready to support Japan’s ...

That was originally intended to carry NASA’s VIPER lunar rover, but NASA elected last summer to cancel VIPER, citing cost overruns and delays. Astrobotic will instead deliver a commercial rover ...

Hurtling towards the moon right now, safely stored in a garage held against the side of a lunar lander, is a suitcase-sized robotic rover from Colorado. And it's on course to make history ...

You can watch the Athena moon landing live on Space.com. MAPP is Lunar Outpost's first moon rover. | Credit: Lunar Outpost If all goes well with landing, MAPP — also known as Lunar Outpost's ...

getting your name aboard the rover is pretty easy too. You have until March 15 to visit the Nasa and just follow the directions there. VIPER is part of Nasa's Commercial Lunar Payload Services ...

A Colorado-built moon rover set to notch up a number of historic firsts will not be completing its mission near the Lunar South Pole. Lunar Outpost’s Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (or ...

The lander is expected to reach the moon's surface on Thursday. Onboard is Lunar Outpost's exploration rover MAPP, or mobile autonomous prospecting platform. "Our flight teams are locked in and me ...

The selected company would be required to accept VIPER as is and not dismantle the rover and incorporate its instruments into another vehicle. It would bear the cost of transporting it to the lunar ...