China's Yutu 2 lunar rover, as seen by the Chang'e 4 lander, on the far side of the moon. The 2026 Chang'e 7 mission will also feature a large rover, as well as a lander and a small hopper that ...

The hopper will carry a water molecule analyzer into permanently shadowed craters. China is preparing to launch a pioneering mission to the moon next year to search for definitive evidence of ...

China is preparing to launch a pioneering mission to the moon next year to search for definitive evidence of water at the lunar south pole. The Chang'e 7 mission will consist of a lander, a rover ...

Grace is a first-of-its-kind technology demonstration as no hopping robot has explored the Moon before. Although Ingenuity, a trusty rotorcraft that explored Mars alongside the Perseverance rover ...

Three rovers and a first-of-its-kind hopping drone. After becoming the first private firm to land on the Moon last year ... Yaoki, a more compact rover from Japanese company Dymon, is designed ...

Intuitive Machines made it to the Moon last year, but its spacecraft fell over. This time it aims to deploy three rovers and a unique "hopping" drone ...

In exchange, it would have to pay for the rover’s final tests; find a way to land it on the Moon (possibly with a different lander); and then perform its original scientific mission. Any new ...

safely stored in a garage held against the side of a lunar lander, is a suitcase-sized robotic rover from Colorado. And it's on course to make history, heralding the beginning of a commercial ...

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to the lunar surface. By Kenneth Chang It’s like a confusing game of ...

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