The space community has leapt into action since NASA canceled plans to launch its VIPER lunar rover. Here’s how — and why — a private company might save the vehicle.

NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission, initially set to explore the moon’s south pole for crucial water ice deposits, faced a significant setback when it was ...

The NASA VIPER rover will explore the south pole of the moon as early as 2024. But first, it has to pass the ramp test.

Delays and concerns about NASA’s future budgets doomed the VIPER mission, which aimed to search for ice near the moon’s south pole.

NASA’s nearly complete yet canceled lunar rover VIPER isn’t going to get carried to the moon by a private space exploration company—but it’s also not quite dead yet ...

NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) sits assembled inside the cleanroom at the agency’s Johnson Space Center. Credit: NASA ...

NASA is ending its VIPER lunar rover project created in partnership with Lockheed Martin and General Motors, the space agency announced Wednesday.

NASA had planned to operate VIPER itself, contracting with Astrobotic for delivering the rover to the south polar region of the moon through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.

NASA has canceled a robotic lunar rover mission that would have searched for ice at the south pole of the moon, citing development delays and cost overruns.