Lunar Outpost Secures $30 Million for Pegasus Rover as It Targets 2028 Moon Launch
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Updated · Space.com · May 21
Lunar Outpost Secures $30 Million for Pegasus Rover as It Targets 2028 Moon Launch
2 articles · Updated · Space.com · May 21
$30 million in new funding will help Lunar Outpost develop Pegasus, a smaller lunar rover the company aims to deliver by end-2027 and launch to the moon in 2028.
Pegasus is designed as a leaner counterpart to the company's larger Eagle rover, fitting Lunar Outpost's broader plan to field autonomous machines that build and maintain lunar infrastructure.
Michael Moreno said those robots are intended to support tasks such as surface improvement, landing-pad construction, energy storage and habitat work for a sustained human presence on the moon.
Lunar Outpost already has more moon rovers assigned to missions than all other commercial companies combined, with four more MAPP mini-rover missions in development after its first mission was lost when Intuitive Machines' Athena lander tipped over in 2025.
NASA's lunar terrain vehicle contracts are worth up to $4.6 billion through 2039, and Lunar Outpost expects one MAPP rover to work alongside an Artemis 4 astronaut in what it says would be a first.
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