Space News reports, “Astrolab’s first lunar rover will carry four NASA payloads on a mission planned to launch later this year. Astrolab announced May 18 that it had reached agreements with four NASA centers to fly payloads on its FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform, or FLIP, rover scheduled to launch on Astrobotic’s Griffin-1 lander late this year.”
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Japan Gets Seats on Artemis Moon-landing Missions in Exchange for Lunar Rover
Ars Technica reports, “US and Japanese officials have signed an agreement to cement a partnership that will pave the way for a Japanese astronaut to walk on the Moon. The Japanese astronaut, still unnamed, will become the first international astronaut to walk on the Moon under the auspices of the NASA-led Artemis program.”
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NASA Soliciting Commercial Lunar Rover Proposals
Aviation Week reports that NASA is “reaching out to the private sector for assistance with the Artemis program, this time to provide unpressurized lunar terrain vehicles (LTVs) to enhance astronaut exploration or to robotically transport cargo and prospect for resources when humans are not available.”
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