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NASA retaining plans to select a single Artemis lunar rover
Top Stories Tamfitronics LAS VEGAS — NASA is not reconsidering plans to select only one company to develop an Artemis lunar rover, despite a setback in another program procuring key elements of the lunar exploration effort as a service.NASA announced in April that it awarded feasibility study contracts to three companies — Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab — for the first phase of its Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) Services contract. The one-year contracts, work on which formally started in May, will allow the companies to mature their designs for rovers that will be used by astronauts on later Artemis missions as well as teleoperated from the ground when astronauts are not present.The agency said it will then select one of the companies to build and demonstrate its rover on the moon, after which...
