09 January 2019
New self-driving rovers being tested for Mars
... 1.4 kilometres without human interaction. Roaming around the Ibn Battuta test centre in Morocco is Sherpa; a four-wheeled rover provided by the German Robotics Innovation Centre DFKI, that is packed full of software suites designed to let Sherpa...
09 August 2016
Yutu, the Chinese Moon Rover, Dies on the Moon
... and 1.5 meters tall, Yutu is much smaller than other rovers, including NASA's Opportunity and Curiosity. Yutu, which translates as... to reports from China's Xinhua news agency, the rover has finally succumbed to cold temperatures during the two...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... of space exploration [2]. High-speed lunar rover Current rover designs are not suited for accomplishing many ... development of traction control algorithms for a lunar prospecting rover intended for the exploration and characterisation of the lunar ...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... Earth months), it operated for eleven lunar days (321 Earth days) and covered a distance of 10.54 km. Lunokhod 2, a second rover from the former Soviet Union, followed in January 1973. Significantly, in terms of the history of space exploration, the...
11 October 2019
Spacebit unveils its design of the UK's first Moon rover
... Tanasyuk, SpaceBit's founder made the announcement, the entrepreneur said that he hopes that future versions of the rover would be sent to explore tubular cave structures – subsurface tunnels, believed to have been formed by ancient balsatic lava...
28 August 2017
Clockwork rover considered for future Venus mission
...as working like "stealth technology in reverse.” By reflecting radar signals instead of dispersing them, as traditional stealth planes do, if the rover was equipped with a specially designed radar target, the two could communicate much the way signal...
