WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA said Wednesday it's canceling its water-seeking moon rover, citing cost overruns and launch delays.

The Viper rover was supposed to launch in late 2023 aboard a lander provided by Astrobotic Technology. But extra testing and increased costs kept delaying the mission, threatening other projects ...

NASA leadership has canceled plans to launch a lunar rover called VIPER, which was scheduled to launch later this year, due to supply chain and budget restraints.

An illustration of NASA's VIPER rover drilling on the moon NASA / Daniel Rutter After spending about $450 million to build a rover destined to search for lunar ice, NASA announced it will cancel ...

NASA announced it has ended the VIPER rover project, which was intended to explore the moon in search of ice near the lunar south pole.

NASA cancels fully built Moon rover, stunning scientists The VIPER rover was meant to be a key scouting mission ahead of NASA’s Artemis program, collecting crucial information about water-ice ...

The VIPER lunar rover promised a revolution in our understanding of the moon’s precious deposits of ice. Then NASA cancelled the mission ...

NASA has canceled a robotic lunar rover mission that would have searched for ice at the south pole of the moon, citing development delays and cost overruns.

NEWS 18 July 2024 NASA cancels $450-million mission to drill for ice on the Moon — surprising researchers The already-built rover could now be scrapped for parts.

Lunar scientists are stunned by NASA's decision to cancel the ice-hunting VIPER rover and what it means for our understanding of the moon.

NASA has already spent $450 million developing its VIPER mission, and the agency declared that it wouldn’t spend any more money on getting the rover to land on the lunar surface.

It’s like a confusing game of musical chairs for spacecraft. Originally, the plan was straightforward: NASA wanted to send a rover to look for frozen water near the moon’s south pole.