New York NASA selected a 13-year-old company, Astrobotic, to deliver a"water-hunting" robot to the Moon's surface in late 2023, the space agency announced Thursday.
The Pittsburgh-based company will receive $199.5 million under the new fixed-price contract, which tasks the company with building and testing a lander spacecraft that can ferry NASA's robotic rover, VIPER, to the lunar surface. After the VIPER rover launches into space aboard a rocket, Astrobotic's lunar lander, called Griffin, will carry VIPER on the last leg of its 239,000-mile trip, taking it from orbit to a soft landing at the Moon's south pole.
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