Colorado-based company Lunar Outpost's MAPP rover is poised to land today (March 6) near the lunar south pole aboard the ...

Hurtling towards the moon right now, safely stored in a garage held against the side of a lunar lander, is a suitcase-sized ...

Data sent to Earth by its MAPP moon rover on Intuitive Machines' ill-fated IM-2 mission will help Colorado company Lunar ...

The Athena lander currently en-route to the Moon carries with it the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) made by Lunar Outpost ...

With the launch of Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (Feb. 27), three lunar ...

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

Last year, NASA canceled the VIPER (“Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover ... into another vehicle. It would bear the cost of transporting it to the lunar surface and operating ...

The diminutive vehicle is designed to hop into ... is set to explore the lunar terrain. Operating without GPS, the MAPP rover (Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform) uses visual cues and sensors ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

Once it arrived, the lander took plenty of pictures of our nearest celestial neighbor. From here, Blue Ghost will spend the ...

MAPP is Lunar Outpost's first moon rover. | Credit ... navigability of the lunar environment to guide the design of lunar vehicles for future moon excursions and NASA's Artemis astronaut campaigns.

"Our Lunar Voyage 1 MAPP rover successfully made it to the moon ... its side in crater at the lunar south pole The four-wheeled vehicle survived the landing and was ready to roll but for the ...