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.

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 ...

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 ...

A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon’s surface, marking the second lunar ... vehicle will use an array of robotic equipment — including a drill, hopper and ...

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 ...