14 April 2021
Emirates partners with Japan for its 2022 lunar rover mission
... commercial programme known as ‘HAKUTO-R’. Under the terms of the agreement, the Japanese lunar exploration company will deliver the Emirates Lunar Mission’s ‘Rashid’ rover to the Moon, provide wired communication and power during the cruise phase...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... of the Gateway lunar orbiter, the Human Landing System and for many of the key components from lunar rovers to habitat facilities...seems to be confirmed by NASA’s streamlined design for its Lunar Gateway, and especially by the decision to replace the ...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
.... In February 2025 China unveiled the official names for a spacesuit and lunar rover to be used in its mission to land astronauts on the Moon ...console, and a glare-proof helmet visor. The Lunar Rover has been named Tansuo, which means ‘to explore the...
22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
... ice in permanently shadowed regions of the Moon. This will be a big step up from Russia’s first series of robotic lunar rovers, Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2, that were first sent to the Moon in 1970. Lunokhod 1 (which means "Moonwalker 1” in Russian...
December 2017
Panoramas from the surface of the Moon
... Apollo 15. Dave Scott can be seen on the slope of Mount Hadley measuring the size of rocks whilst the lunar rover, sitting at the bottom of the slope, has its high gain antenna pointing directly at Earth. The right...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... before repointing and after repointing. Step 3: integrate the process into a rover Once the process has been developed, it must be integrated with a lunar rover to provide a mobile printing capability to enable the additive manufacturing of solid...
