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This French-built lunar rover is hoping to spearhead Europe's ambitions in space. Developed by Venturi Space, MONA LUNA aims ...
At Paris Air Show, European-based space company Venturi Space unveiled MONA LUNA, a European lunar rover designed for ESA and ...
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 ...
The project uses virtual reality to help people on Earth practice controlling robots for Moon missions by simulating tasks ...
The company Venturi Space France wants to build a European moon rover. Initially for scientific purposes, but other uses are ...
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 — ...
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 ...
Half of them practiced in the virtual world first. Those who did the VR training completed the task about 28% faster and said ...
NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...
The photos, taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, show a dark mark and a faint halo in the Mare Frigoris region—also ...