Jan 15, 2025 · NASA’s Artemis lunar rover, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is designed to explore the relatively nearby but extreme environment of the Moon in search of ice and other potential resources.

VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) is a lunar rover which was developed at the NASA Ames Research Center.

3 days ago · Editor’s note: This release was updated on Feb. 4, 2025, to reflect a change in the deadline for when responses to the proposal are due. To advance plans of securing a public/private partnership and land and operate NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission on the Moon in collaboration with industry the agency announced Monday it is seeking U.S. proposals.

2 days ago · On July 17, 2024, however, NASA announced that it was canceling the VIPER program. Doing so would save the agency about $84 million in development costs, officials said. VIPER got something of a ...

11 hours ago · NASA's VIPER rover, by the way, could still make it to the moon, albeit not on Griffin-1. Earlier this week, the agency asked private companies for partnership proposals that would allow the ...

Jul 17, 2024 · The landing without VIPER will provide a flight demonstration of the Griffin lander and its engines. NASA will pursue alternative methods to accomplish many of VIPER’s goals and verify the presence of ice at the lunar South Pole.

Mar 19, 2024 · As NASA’s first mobile robotic mission to the Moon, VIPER will directly analyze ice on the surface and subsurface of the Moon at varying depths and temperature conditions within four main soil environments.

Sep 21, 2023 · VIPER will explore inside dark craters where the Sun never reaches. VIPER is NASA’s first rover with headlights – a system specially designed to work with its cameras in the Moon’s extreme conditions of light and dark.

1 day ago · NASA’s second thoughts about VIPER opened an opportunity for someone else to book that ride to the moon. Just because its cargo was canceled did not mean Astrobotic’s journey was off — it ...

Jan 4, 2024 · NASA is inviting people to send their names to the surface of the Moon aboard the agency’s first robotic lunar rover, VIPER – short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover.