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- United Arab Emirates will launch its first lunar rover named Rashid from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida in November 2022.
- The rover would reach the Lunar surface aboard the Hakuto-R lander of Japan’s ispace sometime in March next year.
- If this lunar mission is successful, the UAE and Japan will rank among the US, Russia and China as being the only countries to land a spacecraft on the lunar surface.
- Its destination the Lacus Somniorum – the Lake of Dreams – is situated close to the lunar equator.
- The Rashid rover will study the lunar surface, mobility on the surface of the moon and how different surfaces interact with the particles on the moon.
- The rover is named after Dubai’s former ruler Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum.
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