WASHINGTON — Lunar rover developer Astrolab announced eight customers have signed contracts worth more than $160 million for its first mission to the moon in 2026. The company, formally known as Venturi Astrolab Inc., announced Nov. 21 that it signed the customers to fly payloads on Mission 1, a flight […]
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Range Rover owners have come under threat as police struggle to get a grip on tackling car crime rates for Britain’s most stolen vehicle. The popular SUVs have become virtually “impossible to insure” in Central London with only two insurers providing cover as thefts are so common. According to the […]
NASA’s new moon rover prototype successfully completed an obstacle course simulating the rugged terrain of the lunar surface. The rover, called VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover), is expected to launch to the lunar south pole in November 2024 atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. To test the rover’s mobility, […]
NASA’s Perseverance rover will soon head to its next destination on Mars: a geological junction called Jurabi Point, where it may get another crack at drilling a Martian boulder. The primary mission of Perseverance is to search for possible indications that life once existed around this area, which was once […]
Judging by a new set of tracks, NASA’s Perseverance rover appears it may have taken a brief detour to Walt Disney World in Florida, despite it being on Mars for the past two years. Guests visiting EPCOT can now come across a tire tread like that left by the six-wheeled […]
A camera on NASA’s Perserverance rover captured a dust devil more than a mile high moving across a ridge on Mars, the agency said in a news release. The rover was near Mars’ Jezero Crater when it spotted the dust devil, moving about 2.5 miles away, on Aug. 30, 2023, […]
NASA’s Perseverance rover has given us a great look at a weather phenomenon that’s very familiar to folks who live in desert regions here on Earth. The car-sized Perseverance captured video of a dust devil swirling on the western rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater on Aug. 30, 2023. Mission team […]
As the silence from India’s moon lander and rover continues, optimism wanes among scientists who have been unable to re-establish communication since the spacecraft went into hibernation mode to endure the freezing lunar night. India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission celebrated a major achievement when it successfully landed on the moon’s southern pole […]