China and UAE on Saturday signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to aid the UAE to land its first rovers on the moon.
The agreement, signed by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) and the China National Space Administration (CNSA), included approval of future cooperation for the UAE’s lunar missions.
The project includes a spacecraft on the moon called Rashid-2 that the UAE will develop with China’s service for landing, data transmission, as well as monitoring and control.
H.E. Zhang Yiming, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the UAE, and H.E. Yousuf Hamad AlShaibani, Vice Chairman of the MBRSC, attended the signing. — MBR Space Centre (@MBRSpaceCentre) September 16, 2022 This is the first cooperation between the two countries in the space sector.
MBRSC said that the agreement paved the way for future projects between China and the UAE.
“The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, which stipulates the centre’s collaboration with the CNSA in landing a rover developed by MBRSC for a future Moon exploration mission, … marks the start of the first joint space project between China and the UAE, laying the groundwork for future opportunities for space co-operation between the two parties,” it said.
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