NASA’s VIPER Moon Rover Gets a 2nd Chance

Private FLIP moon rover replaces NASA's cancelled VIPER on 2025 lunar south pole mission
Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander launched in January 2024 on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket, carrying five NASA science experiments and a variety of other payloads.
VIPER back from the dead? NASA asks US companies to partner on ice-hunting moon rover
"NASA is looking forward to partnering with U.S. industry to meet the challenges of performing volatiles science in the lunar environment."
NASA, Industry Partner On VIPER Moon Rover Mission
NASA has announced the next step in its effort to establish a public/private partnership to land and operate the agency’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) at the Moon to search for water ice.
NASA requests industry proposals for VIPER lunar rover partnership
NASA is moving ahead with plans to partner with a company to deliver a rover to the surface of the moon after the agency canceled the mission last year.
NASA’s VIPER Moon Rover Gets a Second Chance as NASA Turns to Private Industry for Revival
NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission, initially set to explore the moon’s south pole for crucial water ice deposits, faced a significant setback when it was canceled in July 2024 due to budget constraints.
NASA Seeks Industry Partner for VIPER Lunar Exploration
The agency said Monday the Lunar Volatiles Science Partnership will focus on landing and operating VIPER on the moon and then sharing the results of the lunar exploration mission. Through the partnership,
NASA seeking good home for VIPER Moon rover
NASA is seeking a new owner for its Moon rover after canceling plans to send its robotic mission to the lunar surface in search of ice.
NASA Gave Up a Ride to the Moon. This Startup’s Rover Took It.
After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...
Launch recap: Saturday SpaceX rocket launch from Florida on Super Bowl weekend
SpaceX launched its latest Starlink mission at 2:18 p.m. on Saturday afternoon - kicking off Super Bowl weekend for the Cape.
NASA’s Mars rover collects rock sample ‘unlike anything we’ve seen before’
NASA is getting excited about a special rock that its Perseverance rover has just scooped up from the surface of Mars.
After a wrenching decision by NASA, private lunar lander finds a new customer
However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...
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NASA Is Literally Giving a Moon Rover Away, But Only to American Companies
When it decided to scrub the rover NASA announced the four instruments of the rover would be removed and used on other missions, either of its own design or private ones. Then, it came back on ...
Astrobotic secures new lunar payload after NASA nixed rover last year
Astrolab has a contract with SpaceX to transport a larger rover, the Flexible Logistics and Exploration rover, in December of ...
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NASA’s CLPS program accelerates as two landers head...
Two commercial lunar landers are currently on their way to the Moon, and at least two more are set to follow this year under ...
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NASA says Mars rover sample has textures 'unlike anything we've seen’
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The rover has journeyed across more than 20 miles, according to an interactive map that tracks its location and traverse path on NASA’s website. The samples, collected in ...