Lunar Outpost’s MAPP rover mission would have seen it become the first U.S. robotic rover on the surface of the moon. It ...

The areas closest to the moon’s south pole are pockmarked with impact craters, making it difficult to find a patch of flat ... of the crater and transmitting data back home. The Lunar Outpost rover ...

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 ...

In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ushered in a new era of lunar exploration defined by commercial enterprise. The landing ...

The hopper, named Grace after software pioneer Grace Hopper, and the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform rover built by a company called Lunar Outpost, will communicate with the Athena lander ...

So Nokia hired a company called Lunar Outpost to build the rover, which is about the size of a small dog. Lunar Outpost sold space on MAPP to other customers. One, the Massachusetts Institute of ...

The Athena lander’s sideways landing prevented MAPP’s deployment, cutting short its planned lunar exploration.