The countdown to the launch of the explorer “Rashid” to the moon begins

November 2, 2022 Media In

The countdown to the launch of the explorer “Rashid” has begun, to enter the first Emirati mission on the moon, no earlier than November 22.

And the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center published two photos on Twitter, showing the explorer “Rashid” before entering the “Hakuto R” lander, which was transferred to the Cape Canaveral station at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the United States of America.

The Hakutur R spacecraft, developed by the Japanese company “SpaceX” for more than a decade, will carry the explorer “Rashid”, to be the first lunar mission of the spacecraft, to land in an area that has not been visited by any missions so far, on a trip to the moon that takes about 3 to 4 Months.

Cape Canaveral is the headquarters of the US Air and Space Forces, and it has 4 missile launchers, from which the first American satellite was launched in 1958, the first astronaut in 1961, and the first unmanned moon landing in 1966, as well as the first spacecraft It was flown by 3 Apollo 7 astronauts in 1967, while the Kennedy Space Center is located north of the station, on Merritt Island, Florida. The center is 55 kilometers long, 9.7 kilometers wide, and covers an area of ​​570 square kilometers.