Lupek is a rover that will someday be deployed to Mun. It is the KSA's first rover and the team developing it has worked up some automated driving software that needs testing. The software has already managed to get Lupek over 260km in previous drives, and now the team has some new code to test in Lupek's slope avoidance routines. Previously, an aborted slope ascent resulted in the rover tumbling uncontrolled backwards down the slope. As before, a crew vehicle will pace the rover as it drives autonomously.

W2 also gave the team a bit of trouble thanks to a known issue causing Lupek to lose its target data for the next waypoint. They are working on reacquiring the target and resuming the drive. Lupek is not expected to make it to the mountains before next sunset, so at some point the team will stop for the night so Lupek's slope abort testing can be observed in daylight.