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NASA’s VIPER rover in development for scouting mission to moon’s south pole

October 30, 2019 Stephen Clark

Building on a mission canceled last year, NASA is developing a mobile robot named VIPER for launch in 2022 to scout for water ice at the moon’s south pole, the same region where the agency aims to land astronauts by 2024.

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NASA cancels lunar rover, shifts focus to commercial moon landers

May 1, 2018 Stephen Clark

As NASA turns up support for future commercial lunar landers, the space agency last week canceled a mission that would have placed a rover on the moon to survey resources, such as water and helium, that could be used by future human explorers.

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  • SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
    June 13, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
    June 12, 2025
  • SpaceX to debut its fifth and final Crew Dragon spacecraft on Axiom Mission 4
    June 10, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
    June 10, 2025
  • Live coverage: SpaceX to launch fourth commercial Axiom mission to the space station
    June 9, 2025
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