the famous LRV moon buggy used during the Apollo program was controlled by astronauts sitting within the vehicle. The MAPP will also be the first rover at the Lunar South Pole and the first purely ...

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

"Our Lunar Voyage 1 MAPP rover successfully made it to the moon, collected data from the lunar surface and in transit, and proved MAPP was ready to drive," U.S. space exploration company Lunar ...

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived the landing that took out its parent spacecraft and even managed to transmit some data from the moon's surface ...

In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ushered in a new era of lunar exploration defined by commercial enterprise. The landing ...

The company recently announced that instead of VIPER it will deliver the FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform rover to the south pole of the moon as early as the end of 2025. A company called Venturi ...

Nokia, for example, had won a NASA contract to deploy a 4G LTE cellphone network on the moon. Nokia then hired a company, Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colo., to build a rover that would move a ...

Lunar Outpost’s MAPP rover mission would have seen it become ... as the primary contractor to build the next-generation moon buggy for astronauts on the Artemis missions.

Intuitive Machines' Athena mission is already over, but silver linings have emerged from the short-lived lunar south pole landing effort. Athena beamed back images from the surface of the moon ...