The rover is to be launched aboard a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket and deposited on the moon by a Japanese ispace lander someday in March.
“We’ve completed with the testing of the rover and we’re pleased with the outcomes,” Al Marzooqi was quoted as saying. “The rover has been built-in with the lander and it’s prepared for launch.”
The lunar mission is a part of the UAE’s broader technique to turn into a significant participant within the discipline of house exploration. If the moon mission succeeds, the UAE and Japan would be part of the ranks of solely the U.S., Russia and China as nations which have put a spacecraft on the lunar floor.
Already, an Emirati satellite tv for pc is orbiting Mars to review the purple planet’s environment. The UAE partnered with Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to launch that probe, which swung into Mars’ orbit in February 2021.
The Rashid rover is predicted to review the lunar floor, mobility on the moon’s floor and the way completely different surfaces work together with lunar particles. The ten-kilogram (22-pound) rover will carry two high-resolution cameras, a microscopic digicam, a thermal imagery digicam, a probe and different units.
The UAE has plans to develop the Center East’s most superior industrial satellite tv for pc to provide high-resolution satellite tv for pc imagery. It has additionally set the bold aim of constructing a human colony on Mars by 2117.
