Futurism

NASA Scrapping Finished $450 Million Moon Rover, Will Send Dead Weight “Simulator” to Moon in Its Place

NASA’s $450 million lunar explorer, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), will not be going to the Moon. Something else will be taking its place, though — and given the costs ...
Scientific American

NASA May Spend $800 Million to Not Send This Revolutionary Rover to the Moon

In early June NASA engineers put the finishing touches on a technological marvel years in the making: a golf cart-sized rover designed to drive into the cold and darkness near the moon’s south pole, ...
Futurism

NASA Abandons Moon Rover After Spending Half a Billion Dollars on It

NASA will not be sending its half-billion dollar lunar rover to the Moon, it announced on Wednesday — even though the rover is already built. Known as the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration ...
Morningstar

Remcom Receives NASA SBIR for Simulation of Wireless Channels for Artemis Spacesuits and Lunar Rovers

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Remcom has received a new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract from NASA to develop enhanced wireless channel modeling ...