As part of human exploration of the Moon, numerous space missions have been undertaken to study Earth's natural satellite. Of the Moon landings...

The United Kingdom is set to make its own giant leap soon, with a very small rover. A 2.2-lb., four-legged robot Asagumo built by Spacebit will launch...

The UAE has announced a moon mission for 2024. It will use an unusually small rover, with just four wheels and a weight of 10 kilograms (22 pounds). In 2019, India's Chandrayaan-2 mission crash-landed on the moon. Here you can see its rover on a ramp moving into the main vehicle, before...

Referring to the moon rover's scheduled 2022 launch, "It's far enough along that it's a real mission," Clive Neal told The Verge . Neal is a University of Notre Dame engineering professor and Emeritus Chair of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), a NASA advisory group.

NASA is sending a mobile robot to the South Pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice in the region and for the first time ever, actually sample the water ice at the same pole where the first woman and next man will land in 2024 under the Artemis program.

The mission is the first soft-landing on the moon since 1976 and made China only the third country ever perform the lunar feat. Above: China's lunar rover Yutu ("Jade Rabbit") is seen by a camera on the country's Chang'e 3 lander after both successfully landed on the moon together on Dec.

China's first lunar rover is bound for the moon after launching Sunday (Dec. 1) on a mission that, if successful, will establish China as the third nation to soft land a spacecraft on Earth's natural satellite. China's Chang'e 3 probe, with its "Yutu" moon rover, lifted off at 11:30 a.m. CST (1730 GMT

Audi announced that their Google Lunar X Prize team created with PT Scientists is set to send a lunar rover to the moon to explore the Apollo moon site.

While the first mission will deliver the rover, a second Artemis mission scheduled in 2026 is to ferry a "pressurized rover" to the Moon's surface. These rovers are far better-equipped and can move astronauts across greater distances from the landing site than the first, unpressurized lunar rover.

China Brings Moon Rocks to Earth, and a New Era of Competition to Space. The Chang'e-5 mission's success highlights the progress of China's space Its rover, called Yutu-2, is still operating, studying lunar geology nearly two years later. China is now the only country to land successfully on the moon...

Being that NASA hasn't visited the moon in several decades — the last moon mission occurred during the 1970s — you might be wondering why it's Known as VIPER, the project will involve sending a rover to the south pole of the moon. After the rover has landed, it will scour the surrounding...

China's first moon rover mission is poised for a weekend landing on the lunar surface, an event that — if successful — will mark the country's first robotic landing on another celestial body. China's Chang'e 3 lunar lander is currently orbiting the moon with its solar panels and landing legs deployed.

China's maiden moon landing probe successfully entered lunar orbit on Friday, Dec. 6, following Sunday's (Dec. China's 'Yutu' lunar lander is riding piggyback atop the four legged landing probe during the history making journey from the Earth to the Moon.

The rover's radar and panoramic camera have been activated and are working normally. Chang'e 4, named after a Chinese Moon goddess, is the Whether you visit Stuff for hard-hitting investigations that hold the powerful to account or lighthearted stories to lose yourself in, it is our mission to provide...

With two cameras, the rover can take imagery of the Moon's surface. What's more, its legs are intended for roving into lunar lava tubes, which something has not been possible Spacebit's lunar mission will be launched in summer 2021 and it will be active on the Moon for ten days of exploration.

The spacious moon rover will be pressurised, meaning that astronauts would not necessarily need helmets. Toyota has revealed a lunar rover concept it is developing for the Japanese space agency to send astronauts to the moon. The car maker and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has outlined a vision to become just the fourth nation to land on the lunar surface, announcing plans to develop and launch an Emirati-built rover by 2024. If successful, it will see the UAE become the first Arab country to reach the Moon, with mission planners hoping to...

Chinese rover Jade Rabbit 2 sets off to explore far side of moon - video. The rover - named Yutu 2, or Jade Rabbit 2 - left the spacecraft, drove off a ramp and began making tracks on the moon's The mission will also conduct the first astronomy observations from the moon's far side, which is seen as...

China will launch its first ever moon rover mission on Monday, state media said, as Beijing embarks on the latest stage in its ambitious space "The Chang'e 3 is set to be launched for its moon mission from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Dec. 2," state broadcaster CCTV said on its verified...

China launched its first moon rover mission early Monday, the latest step in an ambitious space programme seen as a symbol of its rising global stature. The Chang'e-3 mission is named for the goddess of the moon in Chinese mythology and the rover vehicle is called Yutu, or Jade Rabbit...

Spacebit say it will send the smallest robotic moon rover in the world, with legs and not wheels. According to Pavlo Tanasyuk, the robotic rover features a sensor that can take The US, Russia and China are the only three nations which have successfully managed to get a rover onto the Moon.

The probe is due to land on the moon in mid-December to explore its surface and look for natural resources. It is the world's third lunar rover mission In 2007, China launched its first moon orbiter, the Chang'e-1 - named after a lunar goddess - which took images of the surface and analyzed the...

NASA just canceled its Moon rover program despite President's directive that NASA focus on getting astronauts back to the moon. The lunar rover was reportedly the only one of its type being developed by any space agency in the world. The RP mission has been under development for more...

Moon mission: The far side of the moon has never been explored by any such missions before (Image: CNSA). Moon mission: The lander and rover have surpassed their expected lifespan (Image: CSNA). Space scientists are analysing data collected from the moon mission and plan to publish...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russia's lunar rover, which is projected to be delivered to the Moon by the Luna-29 spacecraft, will be controlled by an anthropomorphic robot, a space industry source told Sputnik on Sunday. The launch of the Luna-29 mission is scheduled in 2028.

The Moon is one of Earth's closest habitable neighbors and provides an opportunity to gain valuable experience for missions to Mars and beyond. The infographic below outlines a typical approach to a mission around the Moon. Lunar missions such as the one depicted here would typically last 6-7...

China's Jade Rabbit moon rover may have stubbed its lucky foot. The state-run Xinhua news agency reported Saturday that China's Yutu moon rover (the The Chang'e 3 moon mission survived its first chilly and lengthy lunar night in early January. A single "day" on the moon lasts about 28 Earth days...

A crewed mission to the moon is also possible later on, China hinted, according to AP. Apart from the lunar program, Beijing is working on the Long March 5 heavier-lift rocket in order to set up a more permanent space station, Tiangong 2.

Between 1968 and 1972, manned missions to the Moon were conducted by the United States as part of the Apollo program. Apollo 8 was the first manned mission Three rover missions were launched, of which two were successful, and eleven sample return flights were attempted with three successes.

Chandrayaan-2 (Moon vehicle 2) entered the Moon's orbit on 20 August and was due to land on the lunar surface a little after midnight India local time Chandrayaan-2 was the most complex mission ever attempted by Isro. The lander carried within its belly a 27kg Moon rover (called Pragyan, which...