The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) completed the first health check on the Rashid Rover, which lifted off on 11 December.
The Emirates Lunar Mission (ELM) team established a telemetry lock with the rover, which was followed by a two-hour operation where all the subsystems were checked to confirm the health of the rover.
Data will now be sent every 30 seconds.
The mission has now entered the Cruise Phase, which could last up to around 140 days, during which the operators will contact the rover almost daily for 10 minutes to perform basic health checks and coordinate with the lander ground control team to ensure the battery charging status of the rover is consistent.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai said, "From a distance of 440,000 km from the surface of the Earth .. the explorer Rashid just sent the first message to the space centre in Al-Khawaneej .. all the devices and systems of the explorer are working properly .. and he began to enter the orbit of the moon in preparation for landing during the coming months, God willing.."