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...
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 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
.... Sadly, the plans once again went nowhere. A spinoff company RoboCV put a “seeing system” designed for a lunar rover in robots that could deliver cargo around warehouses. Today, its clients include Samsung In the same decade...
31 May 2019
Melting moon dust with lasers to use in lunar habitats
... impossible have the chance to achieve it." Currently, the team are working on adapting the laser to fit on the lunar rover, which is integrated into a tunnel at the bottom of the vehicle. After the adjustments, the entire system will...
01 October 2018
ispace partners with SpaceX for 2020 & 2021 Moon missions
... competition finalist. ispace has contracted directly with SpaceX to carry its spacecraft—its lunar orbiter/lander and lunar rovers—for the HAKUTO-R program as secondary payloads on SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket. The launch periods for the first...
