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Inside the scramble to save NASA’s half-billion-dollar, water-hunting moon rover

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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A half-billion-dollar rover that could be crucial to US lunar ambitions sits fully assembled but in a state of limbo, mere steps away from being ready for launch. Known as the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, the 948-pound (430-kilogram) vehicle is designed to scour the moon’s south pole to locate water ice: a key resource that, if found, could one day be converted to drinking water for as…

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Inside the scramble to save NASA’s half-billion-dollar, water-hunting moon rover

The space community has leapt into action since NASA canceled plans to launch its VIPER lunar rover. Here’s how — and why — a private company might save the vehicle.

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Inside the scramble to save NASA’s half-billion-dollar, water-hunting moon rover

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A half-billion-dollar rover that could be crucial to US lunar ambitions sits fully assembled but in a state of limbo, mere steps away from being ready for launch. Known as the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, the 948-pound (430-kilogram) vehicle is designed to scour the moon’s south pole to locate water ice: a key resource that, if found, could one day be converted to drinking water for as…

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Inside the scramble to save NASA’s half-billion-dollar, water-hunting moon rover

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A half-billion-dollar rover that could be crucial to US lunar ambitions sits fully assembled but in a state of limbo, mere steps away from being ready for launch. Known as the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, the 948-pound (430-kilogram) vehicle is designed to scour the moon’s south pole to locate water ice: a key resource that, if found, could one day be converted to drinking water for as…

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Inside the scramble to save NASA’s half-billion-dollar, water-hunting moon rover

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A half-billion-dollar rover that could be crucial to US lunar ambitions sits fully assembled but in a state of limbo, mere steps away from being ready for launch. Known as the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, the 948-pound (430-kilogram) vehicle is designed to scour the moon’s south pole to locate water ice: a key resource that, if found, could one day be converted to drinking water for as…

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