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According to Dubai China.com, when the first Arab interplanetary mission "Hope" orbited Mars and made it for the two-year scientific data collection phase When ready, UAE is working hard to complete the "Rashid" design, this is a lunar rover made by the UAE, based on the modern Dubai builder Sheikh Rashid bin Said · Named after Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al-Maktoum (Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al-Maktoum).
The Dubai Media Office (DMO) said on Twitter on Wednesday: “As the UAE celebrates the achievements of the @HopeMarsMission probe, a group of UAE scientists are already performing another historic feat: building a lunar rover. This vehicle will It is the first lunar rover in the Middle East. It is smaller than any lunar rover that landed on the moon."
This is not only the first lunar landing mission in the Arab world, it will also make the UAE a successor to the United States, the former Soviet Union and the United Arab Emirates. The fourth country in the world to land on the moon after China.
the smallest and lightest
"Rashid" will also become the smallest probe to land on the moon. The construction height is 70 cm (2.3 feet).
This will be the lightest lunar rover, weighing about 10 kg (22 lbs), 50 cm long and 50 cm wide.
DMO pointed out: "The UAE moon landing plan will be launched in 2024 with the purpose of going to places that the lunar rover has never reached. The exact landing location has not yet been revealed, but the purpose is to better understand lunar dust And the changes of rocks on the moon.
100% Made in the UAE
The UAE moon landing mission is part of the new strategy for the period 2021-2031 initiated by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC).His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, announced on September 29, 2020 that the UAE will launch a lunar rover made in the UAE and land by 2024 The surface of the moon. This rover was named "Rashid" after the late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al-Maktoum (Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al-Maktoum), who He is the builder of modern Dubai and one of the founding fathers of the UAE.
UAE moon mission logo
▲The UAE moon mission logo issued by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) in Dubai.
2023 prototype test
In a previous Gulf News report, Dr. Hamad Marzucci, project manager of MBRSC's UAE moon landing mission, said that a team of UAE engineers at MBRSC is working on completion this year The design of the lunar rover. Manufacturing and assembly will be completed in 2022, and preliminary experiments and testing of the prototype will begin in 2023.
▲Rashid Lunar Rover.
As part of the mission to the moon, the UAE is preparing to send the smallest and lightest UAE-made "Rashid" probe to the moon.
Rasheed will be equipped with advanced technologies, including 3D cameras, advanced motion systems, sensors, microscope cameras and thermal imaging cameras, as well as the most advanced communication systems. Once on the surface of the moon, it will run on solar panels. Its four cameras will move vertically and horizontally. It will also be equipped with sensors and systems to analyze the properties of soil, dust, radioactivity, electrical activity and rocks on the surface of the moon.
Rashid lunar rover specifications
mass: 10kg
height: 80cm
length: 50cm
width: 50cm (original title: UAE "Rashid" lunar rover: the smallest in the world,100% Made in the UAE)
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