The United Arab Emirates will launch its first lunar rover in November, the mission supervisor mentioned on Monday. Hamad Al Marzooqui instructed The National, a state-linked newspaper that the “Rashid” rover, named for Dubai’s ruling household, can be launched from. Kennedy Space Center in Florida someday between November 9 and November 15.
He mentioned the precise date can be introduced subsequent month. The rover is to be launched on a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket and deposited on the Moon by a Japanese iSpace lander someday in March. “We have finished with testing the rover and we are pleased with the results,” Al Marzouki was quoted as saying.
“The rover has been integrated with the lander and is ready for launch.” The lunar mission is a part of the UAE’s broader technique to grow to be a significant participant within the discipline of house exploration. If the Moon mission is profitable, the United Arab Emirates and Japan would be a part of the ranks of solely the US, Russia and China to have positioned a spacecraft on the lunar floor.
An Emirati satellite tv for pc is already orbiting Mars to review the environment of the Red Planet. The UAE partnered with Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to launch the probe, which entered Mars orbit in February 2021.
The Rashid rover is anticipated to review the lunar floor, dynamics on the lunar floor and the way completely different surfaces work together with lunar particles. The 10-kilogram (22-pound) rover will carry two high-resolution cameras, a microscopic digicam, a thermal imagery digicam, a probe and different devices. The United Arab Emirates plans to develop the Middle East’s most superior industrial satellite tv for pc to supply high-resolution. Resolution satellite tv for pc imagery. It has additionally set an formidable objective of constructing a human colony on Mars by 2117.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
