The razor-sharp lunar dust particles can stick to and erode equipment and spacesuits, which causes operational problems for astronauts. The rover will analyze the plasma on the lunar surface and conduct experiments, particularly to understand more about the lunar dust. The Rashid Rover is named after the former ruler of Dubai, the late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum. Scheduled to touch down in the Atlas crater in the northeastern part of the moon, the Rashid river is designed and fabricated to withstand the lunar night, even when the temperature reaches as low as -183☌, or -297.4☏. The second lunar day will be spent by the rover conducting secondary operations in order to check whether it will survive the tough nighttime environment of the moon before decommissioning. Once the rover reaches the moon, it will spend one lunar day (equivalent to 14.75 days on Earth) on the surface and begin its main operations. If the rover’s landing on the moon goes well, Hakuto-R will be the first commercial spacecraft to make a controlled landing on the moon.Ī low-energy route has been taken by the mission to the moon, and its due arrival is around April 2023. Dubai’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) built the Rashid Rover, which is being delivered by the HAKUTO-R lander, engineered by a Japanese lunar exploration company, Ispace. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched on December 11, 2022, from the Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida, carrying into space the first-ever Arab-built lunar spacecraft.
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