Intuitive Machines to Lead Coalition in Pursuit of Taking Over NASA’s VIPER Lunar Rover Written 14 August 2024
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Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER). | Credit: NASA/GRC/Bridget Caswell; NASA
Space News reports, “Intuitive Machines says it is organizing a coalition of organizations that will offer to take over a NASA lunar rover mission, launching it on one of the company’s landers. In an Aug. 13 earnings call, Intuitive Machines executives said they were planning to respond to a request for information (RFI). … Steve Altemus, chief executive of Intuitive Machines, said on the call that his company, which also responded to an earlier call for ‘expressions of interest’ from NASA regarding VIPER, is working with other companies, universities and international partners on responding to NASA’s RFI.”
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