Rashid Rover is gearing up for lift-off!
Tue 07 Sep 2021UAE’s space program has now set its course for the moon. The space mission named the Emirates Lunar Mission is aimed to visit the moon by 2024 via the Rashid lunar rover. It has now begun temperature testing.
Recent visuals of the Rashid rover have come to light after the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) tweeted that the Emirates Lunar Mission team has conducted a thermal vacuum test on the engineering qualification model of the rover. This test was carried out in collaboration with the French space agency CNES.
During this, all subsystems in the rover were tested in different extreme temperature cases.
The space centre tweeted, “Emirates Lunar Mission’s team conducted the thermal vacuum test on the engineering qualification model of the Rashid rover in collaboration with the French space agency CNES. During this phase, all subsystems in the rover were tested in different extreme temperature cases.”
Rashid that aims to study the properties of lunar soil and geography, would be carried to space aboard via a Japanese lander, Hakuto-R.
This mission is slated for launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida during a launch window from August to December.