Astrobotic gets $5.6m NASA contract to develop MoonRanger rover

Private American space robotics company Astrobotic has received a $5.6 million contract from NASA to help develop an autonomous lunar rover called MoonRanger. The development will take place in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, according to Astrobotic, which received the contract under NASA’s Lunar Surface and Instrumentation Technology Payload (LSITP) program. NASA is planning a future Moon mission under the …