The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover was intended to search the moon's polar regions for water, but will now be shelved due to budget issues.
NASA has announced it is scrapping its plans to send a rover to the moon. The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, project was intended to search the moon’s polar regions for water, but will now be shelved due to budget issues. Originally slated to land on the moon in December 2022, the project had been delayed several times, and the most recent update was that it would not be ready until September 2025.
Recommended Videos NASA stressed that it was still committed to lunar exploration and that the cutting of this mission was necessary for other mission to continue. The rover was set to be launched as part of a program called CLPS in which the agency works with private companies to launch moon missions.
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