Mission to the Moon

China’s Yutu Moon Rover Declared Dead after 31 Months of Landing

China’s Yutu Moon Rover Declared Dead after 31 Months of Landing

Aug 5, 2016 @ 17:37 | The main objective of Yutu moon rover mission was to achieve China’s first soft-landing on the moon, as well as to explore the surface. China’s State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) announced on August 3 that its Yutu moon rover, or Jade Rabbit, has […]

TransFormer (TF): NASA’s New Concept to send Rovers in Extreme Environment

TransFormer (TF): NASA’s New Concept to send Rovers in Extreme Environment

On moon’s South Pole where even sunlight doesn’t reaches, in such extreme environment NASA is planning to send a rover for scientific data analysis . This oasis (extremely cold dark place) is about the size of a football field, lies in a valley about twice the size of Washington DC, surrounded by peaks the size of […]

Mission to the Moon: AUDI supports the German Team for Moon Rover at Google Lunar XPRIZE

Mission to the Moon: AUDI supports the German Team for Moon Rover at Google Lunar XPRIZE

Audi is taking off for the moon – together with the Part-Time Scientists. Nearly 45 years after NASA’s Apollo 17 completed the last manned mission to the moon, the cooperating partners have selected the old landing site of Apollo 17 as the new target. The group of German engineers in the Part-Time Scientists team is […]