December 2017
Panoramas from the surface of the Moon
...on the right, Dave Scott is standing in front of the lunar rover adjusting the high-gain antenna to point directly at Earth. Some 37... of Mount Hadley measuring the size of rocks whilst the lunar rover, sitting at the bottom of the slope, has its high ...
November 2018
Pole star rising
...of the umbilical release mechanism (URM) for the rover vehicle has been entrusted to Sener Polska, and... founded by Polish scientists, Creotech Instruments. The Curiosity Mars Rover is fitted with infrared detectors manufactured by Poland’s VIGO System...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
... destroyed existing lifeforms. However, NASA’s Mars Express rover has detected methane leakage among the rocks, which ...north and south polar regions, and investigations made by rover thermal sensors have discovered frozen water channels 2.5 cm ...
30 November 2016
German company announce their 'Mission to the Moon' plans
...already developed a lightweight, four-wheel drive, solar-powered rover with the aid of technology partner Audi, and have also...Landing and Navigation Module – ALINA – will safely deliver the rovers to the surface. It is expected that the number of ...
10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
...4 is comprised of a static lander and a 140 kilogram, six-wheeled rover with a lifespan of three months. Its planned landing site is the Von... Universe at extremely low wavelengths. As the rover and lander cannot communicate directly with Earth, ...
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...
