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Astrobotic’s MoonRanger Moves into Final Production

Astrobotic announced today that MoonRanger, an autonomous rover that will explore the lunar South Pole in 2022, passed NASA’s Key Decision Point (KDP) review and is in the final stage of the payload preparation phase, culminating in flight hardware fabrication. By passing the KDP, Astrobotic, subcontractor Carnegie Mellon University, and partner NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley have…