Watch a prototype of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, (VIPER) roll down a ramp to simulate its ...

The prospect of VIPER becoming more of a public/private partnership illustrates the great advantage of a thriving commercial ...

Illustration of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) on the surface of the Moon NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter / NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter Lunar scientists were shocked and ...

NASA is continuing environmental tests of the VIPER lunar rover despite uncertainty about whether and if it will launch. Credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas LOS ANGELES— NASA is requesting concepts ...

NASA is continuing environmental tests of the VIPER lunar rover despite uncertainty about whether and if it will launch. Credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas WASHINGTON — Intuitive Machines says it ...

The mission suffered several supply chain delays and NASA recently decided to cancel VIPER’s lunar journey out of fear that it would disrupt other commercial payload missions to the Moon.

When it announced it is killing the project, NASA hinted there was no chance in hell the VIPER would ever fly to the Moon in complete form. That's why the agency announced it will strip the ...

The scientific community responded with surprise last month when NASA announced it would halt work on the VIPER lunar rover due to a budget shortfall. The rover, already complete and undergoing ...

But VIPER may not make it off the surface of Earth. Citing budgetary concerns, NASA announced last month it was canceling plans to put VIPER on the moon — even though the agency has spent years ...

When NASA canceled its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) project, it reached out to private companies to see if anyone in the commercial sector could complete the mission.