American space company Firefly Aerospace announced it has selected the Honeybee Robotics rover for its 2028 mission to the ...
Lunar Outpost’s MAPP rover mission would have seen it become the first U.S. robotic rover on the surface of the moon. It would have also tested first-of-its-kind lunar 4G Nokia cellphone technology ...
The little, barely one-and-a-half foot long rover, built by Colorado-based startup Lunar Outpost, survived the trip in one piece and was even ready to roam the rocky satellite's craggy surface.
The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived ...
Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.
as well as the first private rover on a planetary body. It will deploy from Athena using a mechanism mounted on the lander's ...
During about 10 days of operations, those scientific instruments will do everything from hunting for water beneath the surface ... the lunar terrain. Operating without GPS, the MAPP rover (Mobile ...
Lunar Outpost sold space on MAPP to other customers. One, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, built a tiny rover called AstroAnt, which will crawl around on the top flat surface of MAPP.
“As we are preparing to send our astronauts back to the lunar surface and to have a sustained ... “Once we touch down, we deploy a rover that tests cellular signals. We have a hopper that ...