25 August 2021
Russia's Luna-25 mission postponed over 'problems during testing'
Russia has announced that its up and coming mission to the Moon, Luna-25, the country’s first mission to the Moon’s surface in 45 years, has been postponed until May 2022 at the earliest due to "problems" encountered with the spacecraft during ...
24 September 2018
Hayabusa2 rovers land successfully on Ryugu
...said Yuichi Tsuda, Project Manager for Hayabusa2. The rovers, collectively named MINERVA-II1 – which stands for the...of Ryugu is soon to get a little busier as two further rovers, MINERVA-II2 and MASCOT, are scheduled to join their fellow trailblazers ...
18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
... Morgan, Perseverance deputy project scientist at the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California where the rover was built. When is the launch of Perseverance? NASA plans to launch Perseverance in a month’s time on 20 July from Cape...
28 September 2018
CubeRover to develop low-cost, revolutionary rover in Luxembourg
.... As the market leader in commercial lunar activity, we developed CubeRover to respond to customer feedback for a low-cost mobile rover. We are thrilled to partner with the Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy to spin out the CubeRover platform as its...
14 April 2021
Emirates partners with Japan for its 2022 lunar rover mission
... the first of its kind from the Arab world. The ‘Rashid’ rover will be transported to the Moon on ispace’s lunar lander during the ...company will deliver the Emirates Lunar Mission’s ‘Rashid’ rover to the Moon, provide wired communication and power ...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... (such as a basaltic regolith). For Mars, the surface properties are commonly based on the information returned from rover activities (such as Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity) but are challenging to determine due to the absence of returned samples...
