NASA is moving forward with its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission by seeking private industry partners to land and operate the rover on the Moon. This initiative ...

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on ...

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, in July 2024, NASA cancelled the 2025 flight of the already completed Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER). Instead, the agency plans to land VIPER’s former ...

It was built as a precursor for NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), a mission to search for water-ice at Mons Mouton but cancelled last summer — in a development ...

IM-2 is of particular importance given that NASA’s other planned venture into a lunar crater to look for ice, its VIPER rover, was canceled last year. Grace is “the only way right now that ...

Read more. TBD, no earlier than December 2025: SpaceX Falcon Heavy flying Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. No longer taking the canceled ...

No longer taking the canceled VIPER rover mission. The Griffin lander will demonstrate its ability to land with no official NASA payload, but will touch down on Mons Mouton near the western rim of ...

Originally, this mission was supposed to carry a NASA rover to drill for ice at the lunar south pole. But VIPER — short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover — was canceled due ...