The rover, named SORA-Q, had extending wheels, a flip-up camera and a transforming tail.
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Japan’s ball-shaped lunar rover makes history with autonomous moon exploration
A tiny, ball-shaped rover has transformed how scientists study the moon. During Japan’s historic first lunar landing, this ...
Moon missions come in all shapes and sizes, from car-sized rovers packed with scientific equipment to towering rocket ...
A robot small enough to fit in your palm spent 100 minutes rolling across the lunar surface, transforming from a sphere into ...
On January 19, 2024, a tiny, spherical rover called SORA-Q arrived on the Moon and unfurled itself into two halves to deploy ...
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This tiny rover 'crawled' across the moon during Japan's history-making 'SLIM' mission
A morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on ...
A retro-futuristic space truck and a nimble crustacean on wheels just won a competition to deploy on a future NASA Artemis ...
The FLEX Rover will be equipped to carry two astronauts and traverse hundreds of miles of lunar terrain.
Lunar Outpost, a space company based in Golden, has won a $220 million contract from NASA to provide transportation for the ...
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Lunar Outpost has big plans for the moon. The new Pegasus lunar rover is just the start
Lunar Outpost has unveiled designs for a new Pegasus moon rover for a 2028 launch — but the Colorado-based company isn't stopping there.
As part of a wide-ranging "update on Moon Base rovers, landers, missions" last month, NASA announced that it has awarded two ...
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