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Lunar Prospector was the third mission selected by NASA for full development and construction as part of the Discovery Program. [2] At a cost of $62.8 million, the 19-month mission was designed for a low polar orbit investigation of the Moon, including mapping of surface composition including lunar hydrogen deposits, measurements of magnetic and gravity fields, and study of lunar outgassing ...
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) is a lunar rover which was developed at the NASA Ames Research Center.Before the project was cancelled in 2024 the rover would have been tasked with prospecting for lunar resources in permanently shadowed areas of lunar south pole region, especially by mapping the distribution and concentration of water ice.
3 Lunar Prospector: Moon: January 7, 1998 Athena II [Star-3700S] 296 kg (653 lb) January 16, 1998 Completed in 1999 Alan Binder [11] 63 (1998) [12] Lunar Prospector was a lunar orbiter to characterize the lunar mineralogy, including polar ice deposits, measure magnetic and gravitational fields, and study lunar outgassing events. After ...
Australia's first lunar rover. Astrobotics mission 3 ⚀ LunaGrid-Lite CubeRover: Astrobotics: 2026 TBD Planned Third lunar mission by Astrobotic, will land at lunar south pole. LunaGrid-Lite mission. LUPEX: LUPEX Rover: JAXA ISRO: 2028 TBD: Planned Joint mission between ISRO and JAXA. Chang’e 8: Chang’e 8 rover CNSA: 2028 TBD: Planned ...
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NASA selected a Nova-C mission for CLPS task order CP-11. [1] It will deliver payloads to the lunar swirl in the Reiner Gamma region. [2] In August 2021, Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its third lunar mission, IM-3. [3] As of August 2024, the launch of IM-3 is expected to take place no earlier than October 2025. [4]
Prospector was based on a study that had been performed by the Marshall Space Flight Center in June 1960, to determine what lunar missions could be achieved using the Saturn I rocket. NASA envisioned Prospector as "a large versatile 'space truck'" [ 3 ] that could be launched by a Saturn rocket and that could soft-land on the Moon with a wide ...
Resource Prospector is a cancelled mission concept by NASA of a rover that would have performed a survey expedition on a polar region of the Moon.The rover was to attempt to detect and map the location of volatiles such as hydrogen, oxygen and lunar water which could foster more affordable and sustainable human exploration to the Moon, Mars, and other Solar System bodies.