After the cancellation of NASA’s VIPER rover, LUPEX is the next opportunity to use a rover-mounted surface drill and spectrometer to search for ice in the Moon’s shadowed south polar region.

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 ...

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 ...

After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which could limit the mission’s scientific accomplishments.

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

NASA is inviting private companies to collaborate on deploying the VIPER moon rover, initially halted due to budget constraints. The rover, designed to locate lunar water ice, was previously set ...

Jan. 15: SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-A at 1:11 a.m. with both the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost moon lander on Blue Ghost Mission 1, the third of NASA’s Commercial ...

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 ...