UAE’s Rashid Rover now at ‘farthest point from Earth’, on track to land on Moon by April-end

UAE’s Rashid Rover now at ‘farthest point from Earth’, on track to land on Moon by April-end

The HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander has so far travelled approximately 1.376 million-kilometres into deep space

Published: Tue 28 Feb 2023, 12:52 PM Last updated: Tue 28 Feb 2023, 1:00 PM

The lander that’s carrying the UAE’s lunar rover to the Moon has entered the second phase of its mission. The lander is now on a trajectory to the Moon with a scheduled landing for the end of April 2023.

This came as ispace, inc., a global lunar exploration company, released an interim success report and announced that its HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander has traveled to its farthest point from Earth into deep space.

The lander was launched December 11, 2022, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Since being deployed from the rocket, the lander has travelled approximately 1.376 million-kilometres into deep space becoming the farthest privately-funded, commercially operating spacecraft to travel into space.

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