This French-built lunar rover is hoping to spearhead Europe's ambitions in space. Developed by Venturi Space, MONA LUNA aims ...

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The project uses virtual reality to help people on Earth practice controlling robots for Moon missions by simulating tasks ...

At Paris Air Show, European-based space company Venturi Space unveiled MONA LUNA, a European lunar rover designed for ESA and ...

The company Venturi Space France wants to build a European moon rover. Initially for scientific purposes, but other uses are ...

Communications ceased less than two minutes before the spacecraft’s scheduled landing on the Moon with a mini rover. Until then, the descent from lunar orbit seemed to be going well. CEO and founder ...

Members of the Iris team have assembled the Iris Lunar Dream Capsule, a tiny payload that will launch aboard Griffin-1, the next lunar lander from Carnegie Mellon spinout Astrobotic. The capsule — ...

Half of them practiced in the virtual world first. Those who did the VR training completed the task about 28% faster and said ...

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. NASA released the ...