NASA Explores Industry, Partner Interest in Using VIPER Moon Rover
2 min read NASA Explores Industry, Partner Interest in Using VIPER Moon Rover NASA’s VIPER robotic Moon rover is seen here in a clean room...
Category : VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
NASA Ends VIPER Project, Continues Moon Exploration
NASA’s VIPER – short for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover – sits assembled inside the cleanroom at the agency’s Johnson Space Center. Credit: NASA...
Mission Manager Update: VIPER Rover Approved to Move into Environmental Testing!
Engineers test the VIPER rover’s wheel movement and rotation in a clean room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA/Helen Arase Vargas While NASA’s...
Luxembourg Leaders Focus on Lunar Exploration at Visit to NASA Ames
Using the Lunar Lab and Regolith Testbeds at NASA’s Ames Research Center, a team created this simulated lunar environment to study lighting conditions experienced at...
Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed
A team of engineers prepares to integrate TRIDENT – short for The Regolith Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain – into the belly of NASA’s...
NASA Ames Hosts JAXA Leader to Discuss Space Science and Spaceflight
NASA/Don Richey Daniel Andrews, project manager for NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) (left), stands next to a full-scale model of the rover alongside...
Mission Manager Update: VIPER Flight Rover Half-Built!
The VIPER team is hard at work building the flight vehicle that will be going to the surface of the Moon this time next year!...
Connect with NASA at FAN EXPO San Francisco 2023
Connect your sci-fi fandom and learn about how NASA explores the unknown in space for all humanity! Join experts and engagement team members from NASA’s...
Watch NASA Build Its First Robotic Moon Rover
Engineers assemble and test NASA’s first robotic Moon rover in a clean room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA/Robert Markowitz The public now...
Mira cómo la NASA construye su primer vehículo lunar robótico
Ingenieros y técnicos ensamblan y ponen a prueba el primer vehículo lunar robótico de la NASA en una sala limpia del Centro Espacial Johnson de...
