The UAE and China are working together on future missions to the Moon including a UAE lunar rover. The UAE space program has been working closely with the United States, which is on the cusp of resuming its own lunar lander missions. Salem Humaid AlMarri, Director General of MBRSC, and Wu Yanhua, Vice Administrator of CNSA, is the first joint space project between the UAE and China. The UAE is already working with a Japanese company, ispace, to put the first UAE rover on the Moon. Japan’s ispace will launch its first lunar lander, Hakuto-R Mission 1, with the UAE’s 10-kilogram Rashid lunar rover and other payloads on a Falcon 9 rocket as soon as November.

Source: CBC News September 17, 2022 21:46 UTC