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NASA picks SpaceX, Blue Origin to fly lunar rover and habitat to the Moon
One mission would send a state-of-the-art lunar rover, in development by Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), to the moon aboard a Starship cargo lander as soon as fiscal year 2032.
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Watch SpaceX exquisitely set free a pair of moon landers in space
Firefly's Blue Ghost lander, originally scheduled to lift off in late 2024, is on its maiden voyage. The uncrewed spacecraft ...
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NASA requests industry proposals for VIPER lunar rover partnership
NASA is moving ahead with plans to partner with a company to deliver a rover to the surface of the moon after the agency ...
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This little rover will ride shotgun on Japan's ambitious Mars moon sample-return mission
The autonomous 55-pound (25-kilogram) rover is called IDEFIX and is part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Martian Moon Exploration (MMX) probe that aims to collect samples of ...
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Tiny Rover Made in a Country You (Probably) Never Knew Existed Is Going to the Moon
It does, however, provide funds for projects imagined elsewhere. And that's how Tenacious, Europe's first-ever Moon rover, came to be. The tiny machine (more on that in a bit) is the work of a ...
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Data on 40 firms may have leaked in cyberattack on JAXA last year
A public relations official of Toyota, which is developing a manned lunar rover for the NASA-led Artemis program in which JAXA is participating, said, “Please contact JAXA on the matter.” ...
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Yutu-2 rover likely immobile on the moon after historic lunar far side mission
Credit: China Lunar Exploration Program/China National Space Administration. HELSINKI — China’s Yutu-2 rover, part of the first ever mission to land on the far side of the moon, may have made ...