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 ...
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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 ...
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Pennsylvania company plans to land rover on moon: ‘This is how we lead,’ Fetterman said
A Pennsylvania robotics company aims to put a robotic rover on the moon by the end of the year and U.S. Senator John ...
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Astrolab's Moon Rover Tested In Death Valley On Earth
Venturi Astrolab's Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover protoype has been tested on the desert sands of Death Valley in California. Credit: Venturi Astrolab ...
After a wrenching decision by NASA, private lunar lander finds a new customer
However, all was not lost. NASA had committed to the contract and said Astrobotic could fly a mass simulator to the Moon. The ...
Pittsburgh's Astrobotic will try again for a moon landing
In January 2024, Astrobotic's Peregrine lander was launched on a Vulcan rocket for what could have been the first U.S. moon ...
Astrolab's FLIP rover joins Astrobotic's Griffin-1 As Primary Payload to the Moon
Today, Venturi Astrolab (Astrolab) and Astrobotic announced that Astrobotic’s Griffin lander will deliver an Astrolab rover ...
What is Elon Musk's plan to make driving on the Moon possible
A Nasa-backed company is teaming up with SpaceX founder and billionaire Elon Musk to develop an ’extreme’ space vehicle that ...
Astrobotic finds new private Moon rover to deliver after NASA pulls plug on VIPER mission
Private Moon company Astrobotic’s mission has new life after finding a match made in heaven with its new customer, Astrolab, following NASA’s decision to pull the plug on the agency’s VIPER Moon rover ...
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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Astrolab's FLIP rover joins Astrobotic's Griffin-1 As Primary Payload to the Moon
and Astrobotic announced that Astrobotic’s Griffin lander will deliver an Astrolab rover to the Moon as part of Astrobotic’s Griffin Mission One (Griffin-1). The rover, currently known as FLIP ...
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Private FLIP moon rover replaces NASA's cancelled VIPER on 2025 lunar south pole mission
Artist's illustration of Astrobotic's Griffin lunar lander and Astrolab's FLIP rover on the moon. | Credit: Astrobotic/Astrolab Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to ...