TBD, no earlier than December 2025: SpaceX Falcon Heavy flying Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. No longer taking the canceled VIPER rover ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example ... such as astronaut habitats and other lunar base structures. In particular, SMA exteriors show potential for withstanding and absorbing micrometeorite ...

Astrobotic will deliver a lunar rover built by Venturi Astrolab to the ... FLIP to interface seamlessly with the existing Griffin design,” Matthews said. FLIP, weighing 500 kilograms, can ...

Three small NASA rovers that will explore the lunar surface as a team have been packed up and shipped from the agency's Jet ...

NASA had planned to operate VIPER itself, contracting with Astrobotic for delivering the rover to the south polar region of the moon through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS ...

Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to fly on the first-ever mission of its Griffin moon lander. Griffin was originally supposed to deliver NASA's ice-hunting VIPER ...

Artist's illustration of Astrobotic's Griffin lunar lander and Astrolab's FLIP rover on the moon. | Credit: Astrobotic/Astrolab Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to ...

The MoU opens doors for Pakistan's first indigenous lunar rover to be part of China's Chang'e-8 mission, set for launch in 2028. The Chang'e-8 mission has been developed and implemented by CNSA ...

Pakistan and China have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) allowing Pakistan’s first lunar rover to be part of China’s Chang’E 8 mission, SUPARCO announced on Thursday. The Chang’E ...

The Chang’e-7 mission will consist of an orbiter, a lander, a lunar rover and the flying detector. Upon landing, the rover, lander and detector will work together to carry out the most detailed ...

"Astrolab shares our vision of making lunar science, exploration and commercial activity both accessible and transformative," he added. "By deploying the FLIP rover on Griffin-1, we are advancing ...