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 ...

NASA’s decision to cancel the VIPER rover mission has sparked backlash across the space community. Designed to map water ice ...

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 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 aligns ...

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 ...

Last year, NASA canceled the VIPER (“Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover”) in a move that scandalized proponents of a return to the moon. The space agency was just $84 million short of ...

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 ...

HOUSTON—NASA’s pursuit of a public/private partnership to land its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) on the Moon could be more of a challenge than it may seem due to uncertainty ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year, NASA canceled the VIPER (“Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover”) in a move that scandalized proponents of a return to the moon. The space agency was just $84 million short of ...