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...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
... is not due to be delivered until the Artemis VI mission on a date still unconfirmed. A 1:10 model of a China manned lunar lander with attached lunar rover and (far right) VAST’s Haven-1 private space station. Sustainability It is good that space...
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...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... zero gravity replicated on Earth in the Einstein elevator. Project MOONRISE used a customised laser mounted on the MIRA3D lunar rover prototype and melted regolith into spherical shapes. Mind map for construction of a 3D printed...
15 November 2019
First public test of Mars lander for China ahead of 2020 launch
... to gather data on the arid and dusty martian surface. Twice as massive as China’s two lunar rovers, the Mars rover will be equipped with a packed payload of instruments including a subsurface detection radar, a climate detector, and a Mars magnetic...
