The 420 kg rover is based on the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle and includes 1.6 m2 of solar array and a 30 Ah battery to stay alive during the Lunar night. 4 RHUs keep the avionics warm at night, and ...

Originally scheduled for a 2024 launch, the mission was halted due to financial constraints. Now, NASA is seeking private ...

This notional architecture consists of 128 dual polarization antennas deployed across a 10 km area by a rover, and tethered to a base station for central processing, power and data transmission to the ...

Three small NASA rovers that will explore the lunar surface as a team have been packed up and shipped from the agency's Jet ...

STOCKHOLM — A Swedish artist is about to have the dream of a lifetime fulfilled: a little red model house he created will be launched into space this week and, if all goes according to plan, put on ...

This and myriad other discoveries would not have been possible without the lunar roving ... won the project on points and price. Plus, GM had a long relationship with NASA on rover studies all ...

Launching on a Japanese moon lander and mounted to the front bumper of the mission's rover is the "Moonhouse," a project by Mikael ... SpaceX will launch 2 private lunar landers this week, kicking ...

rivaling the US-led Artemis international lunar exploration project. The state-run China Central Television aired a computer graphics video of its own program. It shows the folded rover being ...

Last year, NASA canceled the VIPER (“Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover”) in a move that scandalized proponents of a return to the moon. The space agency was just $84 million ...

and test ways of keeping lunar dust from interfering with landers. Type of craft: Lander and rover. Who's doing it?ispace, a Japanese lunar robotic exploration company. Launched ...