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MoonRanger Rover Moves into Final Production

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Tom Patton
Aug 13, 2021
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MoonRanger, an autonomous rover being developed by Astrobotic that will explore the lunar South Pole in 2022, has passed NASA’s Key Decision Point (KDP) review and is in the final stage of the payload preparation phase, culminating in flight hardware fabrication.

“MoonRanger will be the first truly autonomous micro-rover on the lunar surface. It is desig…

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