At an award-winning and mind-blowing festival of discoveries and ideas - New Scientist Live, CEO and Founder of UK startup Spacebit, Pavlo Tanasyuk announced the first commercial UK mission to The Moon, making hereby lunar missions accessible.

Spacebit will send the smallest robotic moon rover in the world, with legs and not wheels. This will be the very first time in history anything with legs will be delivered into space to another planet.

According to Pavlo Tanasyuk, this robotic rover features a sensor that can take measurements and collect exploration data. These data can be evaluated, and it can be utilised for any commercial and scientific purposes. With two cameras, the rover can take robot selfies during its time on The Moon's surface. What's more, its legs are intended for roving into lunar lava tubes, which something has not been possible before.

Spacebit will send this rover to The Moon to record vital data, which could benefit the planet. "We have to explore and research the environments and resources of other planets to help us create sustainability on Earth," said Tanasyuk.

The rover has been built to endure the massive swings in lunar temperatures - from 130 degrees during the day to minus 130 degrees at night. What's more, it was designed to submit along with the technical standards and specifications of NASA.

This lunar mission will be the first for the United Kingdom. In fact, there are only three nations, which have managed to get a rover onto The Moon: China, Russia, and the USA. The UK will be next.

Spacebit will be part of the first payload to be delivered to The Moon. Recently, Spacebit signed a joint agreement with Astrobotic to start scientific and commercial lunar exploration with the first mission in 2021 on the Peregrine lunar lander.

Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander will be launched on a Vulcan Centaur rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch will carry the first lunar lander from American soil since Apollo. Astrobotic was selected by NASA in May 2019 for a $79.5 million contract to deliver payloads to The Moon in 2021.

Spacebit's lunar mission will be held in summer 2021, and it will arrive on the day after launch. It will be on The Moon for ten days of exploration.

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