Last year, NASA canceled the VIPER (“Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover”) in a move that scandalized proponents of a return to the moon. The space agency was just $84 million short of ...
The $450 million VIPER (volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) was designed to search Earth’s Moon for ice and other potential resources. NASA cited cost increases and launch delays as ...
NASA has spent $450 million designing and building a first-of-its-kind robot to drive into eternally dark craters at the Moon's south pole, but the agency announced Wednesday it will cancel the rover ...
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NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission, initially set to explore the moon’s south pole for ...
NASA has cancelled its VIPER moon rover program due to rising costs. The decision to axe the VIPER mission was announced today (July 17) in a teleconference; cancelling the program is expected to save ...
Delays and concerns about NASA’s future budgets doomed the VIPER mission, which aimed to search for ice near the moon’s south pole. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has reported on the highs and lows of ...
Space News reports that NASA has stopped work on the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER). The space agency has run out of money and, absent a last-minute salvation by Congress or ...
WASHINGTON — NASA expects to determine by early next year the next steps for a lunar rover mission it canceled in July amid some confusion over the timing of that decision. Speaking at an Oct. 28 ...
An illustration of NASA's VIPER rover drilling on the moon NASA / Daniel Rutter After spending about $450 million to build a rover destined to search for lunar ice, NASA announced it will cancel the ...
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