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    Chang'e 4 (category Lunar rovers)
    and Yutu-2 (Chinese: 玉兔二号; pinyin: Yùtù Èrhào; lit. 'Jade Rabbit No. 2') rover were launched on 7 December 2018 and entered lunar orbit on 12 December...
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  • Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (category Lunar rovers)
    Exploration Agency (JAXA). The mission would send an uncrewed lunar lander and rover to explore the south pole region of the Moon no earlier than 2028. It is...
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    (including unsuccessful ones) to the planet Mars, such as orbiters, landers, and rovers. Mission Type Legend   Mission to Mars   Gravity assist, destination elsewhere...
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    lander and rover was under development since 2007. Russia was supposed to develop the lander while India would develop an orbiter, a rover and launch...
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    Mars 3 (category Mars rovers)
    contamination of the martian environment. Mars 3 lander had a small 4.5 kg Mars rover on board, which would move across the surface on skis while connected to...
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    Mellott (December 2007). "Venus surface power and cooling systems". Acta Astronautica. 61 (11–12): 995–1001. Bibcode:2007AcAau..61..995L. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro...
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    Administration (CNSA). The program encompasses lunar orbiters, landers, rovers and sample return spacecraft, launched using the Long March series of rockets...
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    Heat Shield Rock (category Mars Exploration Rover mission)
    Wikinews has related news: Mars Rover’s Basketball-Shaped Discovery Stirs Controversy Rover finds meteorite on Mars Heat Shield Rock is a basketball-sized...
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    Mars 2 (category Mars rovers)
    Martian environment. Mars 2 lander had a small 4.5 kilograms (9.9 lb) Mars rover on board, which would move across the surface on skis while connected to...
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  • Encyclopedia Astronautica Fobos 1F Archived 2011-10-10 at the Wayback Machine Dunn, Marcia (27 October 1996). "NASA Takes No Dirty Chances With Mars Rover". Los...
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    settlers and terraforming the planet. Currently, only robotic landers and rovers have been on Mars. The farthest humans have been beyond Earth is the Moon...
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    NERVA (section Project Rover)
    Harold Finger and AEC's Milton Klein. NERVA had its origins in Project Rover, an AEC research project at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL)...
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    exploration rovers (MER) and the Curiosity rover. In the case of the MER mission, the spacecraft and the rover operated on stored programs, with the rover drivers...
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  • to send signals from the landers to Earth. Both landers had a small Mars rover, PrOP-M, on board, which would move across the surface on skis while connected...
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  • landing on the Moon, in order to deploy a Lunokhod rover onto the surface. It carried the Lunokhod No.201 rover. Luna E-8 No.201 was launched at 06:48:15 UTC...
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  • moved to Los Alamos and joined the Nuclear Propulsion Division's Project Rover designing nuclear thermal rocket engines. Bussard and R.D. DeLauer wrote...
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    of 2024[update], samples have been gathered on Mars by the Perseverance rover. Once returned to Earth, stored samples can be studied with the most sophisticated...
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    Miyamoto, Hirdy (September 2023). "Science objectives of the MMX rover". Acta Astronautica. 210: 95–101. Bibcode:2023AcAau.210...95U. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro...
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    sample-return mission, but the soil has been studied remotely with the use of Mars rovers and Mars orbiters. Its properties can differ significantly from those of...
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    Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on October 31, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2019. Wade, Mark. "MPK". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived...
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  • Laboratory. September 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2018. "Transit". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013...
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    2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008. Wade, Mark. "Soyuz". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 7 January 2010. Retrieved 21 December...
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    bipropellant propulsion double-valve combined test system" (PDF). Acta Astronautica. 133: 346–374. Bibcode:2017AcAau.133..346C. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2016...
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    Mark Wade is available online at Kamanin Diaries, in the Encyclopedia Astronautica. Bizony, Piers; Doran, Jamie (1998). Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend...
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    Makoto (2013). "Small carry-on impactor of Hayabusa2 mission". Acta Astronautica. 84: 227–236. Bibcode:2013AcAau..84..227S. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2012...
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    Solar Probe's unprecedented flight to the Sun and early results". Acta Astronautica. 179: 425–438. Bibcode:2021AcAau.179..425G. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2020...
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    Apollo 17 (category Lunar rovers)
    Orloff & Harland 2006, p. 581. Wade, Mark. "Apollo 17". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on August 12, 2011. Retrieved August 22,...
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    examined both nuclear-thermal and nuclear-electric propulsion. Through Project Rover, Los Alamos National Laboratory began developing nuclear thermal engines...
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    First Rover "Lunokhod 1"] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 April 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2015. "L3". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived...
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    U. I.; Cheng, A. F. (January 2003). "Aladdin mission concept". Acta Astronautica. 52 (2): 211–218. Bibcode:2003AcAau..52..211M. doi:10.1016/S0094-5765(02)00159-5...
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