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Path of Lunar Prospector space probe. The mission ended on July 31, 1999 at 9:52:02 UT (5:52:02 EDT) when Lunar Prospector was steered into a deliberate collision in a permanently shadowed area of the Shoemaker crater near the lunar south pole. It was hoped that the impact would liberate water vapor from the suspected ice deposits in the crater ...
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 variety of payloads. Among the applications envisioned were: [3] A remote-controlled lunar rover that could explore large areas of the lunar surface, including the far side of the Moon [2]
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.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Emirates Lunar Mission; ... Lunar Prospector; Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter;
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 ...
The mission was known as IM-3 mission and was planned to land on the Moon in 2024. The contract value was $77.5 million and under the contract, Intuitive Machines was responsible for end-to-end delivery services, including payload integration, delivery from Earth to the surface of the Moon, and payload operations. [26]
Download QR code; Print/export ... Download as PDF; ... IM-3 is an upcoming lunar mission that will be carried in late October 2025 by Intuitive Machines for NASA's ...
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.