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NASA's lunar mission has suffered a setback after reports of the US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) financial situation worsening. Their project has been in trouble due to extraordinary cost overruns and launch delays.
Considering such reasons, NASA has cancelled the mission of landing a rover on the moon. NASA's lunar exploration and exploration program has suffered a major setback due to financial problems. NASA has spent 450 million dollars so far to carry out this mission. Now that the project is stuck in the middle, the cost is likely to increase.
The rover was planned to be launched in 2023 on a lander by Astrobotic Technology. But in 2022, NASA announced a launch delay until late 2024 to allow more time for pre-flight testing of the Griffin lander. The rover's launch date was then pushed to September 2025, raising the mission's cost to an estimated $606.6 million. The rover was fully developed but not tested.
Several other projects were affected
“These types of decisions are not easy for us to make,” said Nikki Fokas, NASA's science mission associate administrator. Given the estimated cost of our VIPER (Volatile Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project, we had to cancel or temporarily halt some other missions. NASA's Artemis Lunar Rover (VIPER) was intended to search for ice and other resources on the moon's south pole.