Astrolab's first lunar rover will carry four NASA payloads on a mission planned to launch later this year.
NASA's Ames Research Center is providing the Moon Exploration for Titanium with Active Lighting, or METAL, a camera and radiometer designed to identify helium-3 deposits in lunar regolith.
Astrolab announced May 18 that it had reached agreements with four NASA centers to fly payloads on its FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform, or FLIP, rover scheduled to launch on Astrobotic's Griffin-1 lander late this year.
