Spaceflight now nasa cancels lunar rover, shifts focus to commercial moon landers washington post stunning scientists, nasa’s only moon rover just. Is there an estimate of the mass artemis landers must be able to deliver to the lunar surface? Some landers are stationary (like the vikings and insight), other landers carry a rover (like spirit and opportunity).
It's an exaggeration that it's beyond prohibitive to design the lander to also be able to decelerate in any orientation. Most lunar landers are manned but are all of them? They relied on uhf links to orbiting spacecraft for their primary links to the earth.
0 landers usually are constructed around a centerpiece that its power sources protrude from the side, while rovers power sources are usually built into the rear, or top. For the last 20 years, most of the us landers have been rovers, with the exception of two missions. The more recent nasa landers, phoenix and insight, did not have dish antennas. One of these explored the northern areas, and the other explored the ground.
You don't need all that much thrust to land on the moon; I also don't know about the lifespan of the lunar lander, other than they return to earth when done being used. Curiosity is a rover, its spacecraft didn't include a lander:.