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Rovers are used to explore, collect information, and take samples of the surface. This is a list of all rovers on extraterrestrial bodies in the Solar System. Since 1970, there have been seven lunar rovers, seven Mars rovers, and three asteroid rovers
Pages in category "Lunar rovers" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The lunar rover is called Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, a name selected in an online poll. [ 5 ] The rover encountered operational difficulties after the first 14-day lunar night, and was unable to move after the end of the second lunar night, finally on August 3, 2016, it officially stopped sending data and doing its operations.
Rover: Large Lunar rover, can accommodate cargo and 2 astronauts. Astrobotic mission 3 [140] TBA: 2026: Falcon Heavy: Astrobotic: Lander ⚀ LunaGrid-Lite CubeRover: Rover: Lunaris Platform [141] Deployable platform: Third lunar mission by Astrobotic, will land at lunar south pole. LunaGrid-Lite mission. Canadian lunar rover mission: Canadensys ...
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. [8] It was the second roving remote-controlled robot to land on any celestial body.
First soft landing on the Moon since 1976, lunar rover. Chang'e 4 China: 3 January 2019: First soft landing on the far side of the Moon, lunar rover. Beresheet Israel: 11 April 2019: Israeli lunar lander crash landed on the Moon. Chandrayaan-2 India: 8 September 2019
Left lunar orbit 21 June 2024; currently at Sun Earth L2 First lunar sample return mission from far side and south pole of Moon by China. Ascent stage was be deorbited on 6 June 2024. Capsule was be returned sample via service module on 25 June 2024. [12] ICUBE-Q: Pakistan 8 May 2024 On a Selenocentric orbit