MBRSC’s Rashid Rover has completed its final tests in Germany, bringing it one step closer to the lunar surface.
The entire country is feeling a little over the moon today, and rightfully so!
After four months of rigorous internal and external reviews, Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre’s (MBRSC’s) Rashid rover has officially cleared all required tests! The UAE’s first mission to the lunar surface is one step closer to its launch pad.
The reviews were designed to test out every one of the multitudes of systems and subsystems of the rover during the launch, cruise, and descent stages.
At the start of the year, the ELM rover completed the assembly and first set of full functional tests of the flight model in the laboratories of MBRSC. This was followed by a heavy vibration test of the model at the EDGE’s Electro-Optics Centre of Excellence (EOCE) laboratories based in Abu Dhabi.
In the second phase, the Rashid rover completed a series of environmental tests at Toulouse, France. The second and last section of the environmental tests included rigorous vibration and shock checks of the flight model at the CNES Labs.
The tests campaign concluded in Germany with the final phase of checks on the interfaces with the ispace lander that will safely deliver the rover to the Moon’s surface.
The final integration process for the Rashid rover is now being carried out before the launch window of 9-15 November.
The primary goal of the mission is to study the moon’s plasma and to provide answers about moon dust, the lunar surface, mobility on the moon’s surface, and how different surfaces interact with lunar particles.
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