September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... nation’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft with an orbiter, lander and a rover, which arrived at the Moon in late August and, ...space station in Earth orbit, a lunar rover on the far side of the Moon and a soft landing of a rover on the surface of Mars. China...
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...
April 2025
Strapped for success - from racetrack to orbit
... design, enabling cost-effective solutions for diverse exploration needs. These could range from seating for lunar rovers (for long distance pressurised transportation or local mobility solutions for materials and passengers) to spacecraft with crew...
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...
