March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... lunar regolith from as deep as 1m below the surface, and processing in the OVEN subsystem. Mission overview Resource Prospector is a Phase A project, managed within the Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Division of NASA’s Human Exploration and...
30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
... have left many in the lunar science community confused and angered after the agency decided to scrap it’s Resource Prospector mission - it’s only planned robotic mission to the Moon’s surface. The move is seen as somewhat of a puzzlement given the...
28 May 2021
US GAO report casts doubt on 2024 lunar landing
...related to costs associated with the agency’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER). Formerly known as the Resource Prospector, the project was original estimated to cost around $90.6 million; a figure which did not include the cost...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... will ever be capable of such endeavours, but this monopoly over space resources should be overcome and placed under proper international control. NASA’s Resource Prospector aims to be the first mining expedition on another world. Space taxes As the...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
...coming years, government-sponsored and private-sector spacecraft will land on the Moon. This image shows a resource prospector carrying a Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatile Extraction (RESOLVE) experiment, intended to find...
