Colorado-based company Lunar Outpost's MAPP rover is poised to land today (March 6) near the lunar south pole aboard the private Athena moon lander.

Chinese engineers identify a design flaw in NASA's lunar nuclear reactor, suggesting improvements that could boost efficiency ...

To do that, astronauts will need vehicles to range far afield ... The three companies selected to submit lunar rover design proposals are Intuitive Machines, a Texas-based small space company ...

It is expected that the effect of these can be easily mitigated by array calibration. The 420 kg rover is based on the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle and includes 1.6 m2 of solar array and a 30 Ah ...

A lunar rover that does all of this while enabling ... relationship is not damaged by unnecessary tensions. Design, demonstration vehicle production, and various tests will begin in earnest ...

Lunar Outpost’s MAPP rover mission would have seen it become the first U.S. robotic rover on the surface of the moon. It ...

The hopper, named Grace after software pioneer Grace Hopper, and the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform rover built by a company called Lunar Outpost, will communicate with the Athena lander ...

The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover ... lunar surface and achieved our mission objectives had it been given the opportunity." Despite not being able to exit its transport ...

TOKYO, JP / ACCESS Newswire / February 25, 2025 / Dymon announced that the YAOKI rover is loaded aboard the Intuitive Machines Nova-C class lunar lander, Athena and is ready to be operated by ...