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Space Applications Services intends to send the LUVMI-M rover to the Moon using Blue Origin's lander.
A company from Europe, the Belgian Space Applications Services, using the Blue Origin Blue Moon lander, will send the Lunar Volatiles Mobile Instrumentation - Medium (LUVMI-M) rover to the Moon. The European Spaceflight (ES) portal writes about this.
The publication notes that LUVMI-M could become the first European commercial mission to launch a lunar rover.
The LUVMI-M rover carries up to 20 kilograms of payload, is designed to operate for 10-14 days and is capable of traveling up to five kilometers on the Moon. The launch of the rover is expected in early 2029.
Earlier, the portal reported that Italy will spend more than five billion dollars to send two astronauts to the Moon.
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