A Big Rover Aims to Be Like ‘U.P.S. for the Moon’

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From the NY Times:
"A rover the size of a Jeep Wrangler is heading to the moon, and it’s going to need a big ride to get there.

Astrolab Inc., the tiny start-up that is building the rover, chose the biggest ride possible: Starship, the new giant spacecraft under development by Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company.

On Friday, Astrolab announced that it had signed an agreement with SpaceX for its Flexible Logistics and Exploration Rover, or FLEX, to be a payload on an uncrewed Starship cargo mission that is to take off as early as mid-2026."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/scie ... pacex.html

I had to sign up for a free-access account to get to see this article. I'll try to find other articles that we do not have to sign up for anything.

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From SpaceNews.com:
"Astrolab to send rover to the moon on SpaceX’s Starship"

https://spacenews.com/astrolab-to-send- ... -starship/

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