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First crewed lunar rover Apollo 16: Lunar Roving Vehicle: NASA: 21 April 1972 8.97301°S 15.50019°E: 3 h 26 min 26.55 km (16.50 mi) Apollo 17: Lunar Roving Vehicle: NASA: 11 December 1972 20.1908°N 30.7717°E: 4 h 26 min 35.89 km (22.30 mi) Furthest distance travelled by crewed lunar rover Artemis V: Lunar Terrain Vehicle: NASA: 2030 TBD
The Lunar Polar Exploration Mission is a robotic lunar mission concept by Indian Space Research Organisation and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency that would send a lunar rover and lander to explore the south pole region of the Moon in 2028. The Japanese agency is likely to provide the under-development H3 launch vehicle and the rover ...
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) is a lunar rover which was developed at the NASA Ames Research Center.Before the project was cancelled in 2024 the rover would have been tasked with prospecting for lunar resources in permanently shadowed areas of lunar south pole region, especially by mapping the distribution and concentration of water ice.
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Rover: Large Lunar rover, can accommodate cargo and 2 astronauts. Astrobotic mission 3 [144] TBA: 2026: Falcon Heavy: Astrobotic: Lander ⚀ LunaGrid-Lite CubeRover: Rover: Lunaris Platform [145] Deployable platform: Third lunar mission by Astrobotic, will land at lunar south pole. LunaGrid-Lite mission. Canadian lunar rover mission: Canadensys ...
Starlab is a planned commercial space station. 2029 [69] Unknown HLS TBA: Eagle Rover [70] Possible rideshare: Lunar surface: Lunar Outpost [71] The Eagle Rover has been selected by NASA for study as a Lunar Terrain Vehicle. [72] 2030 [73] Unknown Unknown TBA: Haven-2 Core Module LEO: VAST: Launch of Haven-2 Core module. [74] 2032 [75] Unknown ...
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972. It is popularly called the Moon buggy, a play on the term "dune buggy". Built by Boeing, each LRV has a mass of 462 pounds (210 kg) without payload.
The Lunokhod 2 lunar rover. The Lunokhod 2 was the second of two uncrewed lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program. The rover became operational on the Moon on January 16, 1973. [7] It was the second roving remote-controlled robot to land on any celestial body.