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CLPS Delivery of VIPER Delayed to 2024

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Tom Patton
Jul 22, 2022
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NASA has delayed CLPS delivery of VIPER to the Moon to 2024, due to the agency’s request to Astrobotic for additional ground testing of the company’s Griffin lunar lander, which will deliver VIPER to the lunar surface through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CPLS).

“VIPER is NASA’s largest and most sophisticated science payload to be delivered to t…

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