(MENAFN-Al-Bayan)
The Japanese Hakuto-R lander, which is currently carrying the explorer Rashid, is approaching entering the lunar orbit, as it rises regarding 450,000 km from Earth.
While this stage requires the use of many maneuvers, and for its part, the Mission Control Center in Tokyo expects that the lunar orbital insertion maneuver will be completed and completed at the end of this March, leading to a safe landing on the lunar surface by the end of next April in the “Atlas Crater” area.
According to the Japanese company, “iSpace”, which manages the mission, the spacecraft reached its farthest point during its journey, reaching 1.4 million kilometers from Earth on January 20, following its launch on December 11, and then began approaching once more to take its scheduled orbit through which reach the surface of the moon.
The spacecraft takes a low-energy path to the moon instead of directly approaching the moon, so that the “Hakuto-R” vehicle does not depend on the distance it travels daily during its journey, as much as it depends on the orbit it takes, represented by leaving the Earth’s orbit to reach the farthest point from it, Which is considered the focal point for reorienting the trajectory in the correct way, so that following that it takes a kind of free fall towards the lunar gravity, to start entering the lunar orbit later.
The Hakuto-R lander provides services for connecting the explorer and equipment for the project, providing wired communications and power during the approaching phase of the moon, and radio communications following landing, as commands will be sent, received, and information received will be analyzed daily until the explorer successfully reaches the lunar surface.
plan
The mission of the explorer Rashid takes one lunar day, equivalent to 14 Earth days, starting following sunrise in the landing area until before sunset, as the explorer will move in different places, while each site has a scientific plan to explore it, while the possibility of extending the mission to another lunar day depends on The efficiency of the charging batteries and the availability of energy at the time, and in the event that this happens, this matter will be a great achievement, because most tasks end following the lunar night.
The explorer will move on the surface of the moon, moving to new sites that have not been studied before, where he will capture rare data and images, and then send them to the ground control station at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, and therefore the data and images that he will provide will be modern and of scientific and knowledge value. big.
efficiency
The explorer Rashid is one of the most advanced and sophisticated vehicles that reach the surface of the moon, and it is characterized by a number of high-quality and efficient technical specifications, as it was equipped with 3D cameras, a suspension system, advanced sensor and communication systems, an external structure and solar panels to provide it with energy, while it carries 4 moving cameras. Vertically and horizontally, it includes two primary cameras, a microscope camera, and a thermal imaging camera, in addition to sensors and systems equipped to analyze the properties of soil, dust, radioactive and electrical activities, and rocks on the moon’s surface.
