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Rover (space exploration)

A rover, or planetary rover, is a mobile vehicle that explores the surface of another celestial body, from the Soviet Lunokhod 1 of 1970 to NASA's Perseverance on Mars.

Rover 200 / 25

The Rover 200 / 25 was a small British hatchback built from 1995 to 2005, renamed the Rover 25 in 1999 and later spawning the MG ZR and Streetwise.

Rover 75

The Rover 75 is a front-wheel-drive executive saloon built by the British maker Rover from 1998 to 2005 under BMW ownership, and it later spawned the MG ZT.

Rover Company

The Rover Company was a British manufacturing firm founded in Coventry in 1878 as a bicycle maker, known for the 1885 Rover Safety bicycle and the Land Rover marque.

Rover Group

Rover Group was a British volume car manufacturer, the successor to nationalized British Leyland, privatized in 1988, sold to BMW in 1994, and broken up by BMW in 2000.

Rover P6

The Rover P6 is a British executive saloon built at Solihull, England, from 1963 to 1977, sold as the 2000, 2200, and 3500 by engine size.

Rover SD1

The Rover SD1 is a large five-door hatchback executive car built by Rover from 1976 to 1986, winning the 1977 European Car of the Year award.

Rover V8 engine

The Rover V8 is a lightweight aluminum overhead-valve V8 petrol engine, originally the Buick 215, built in Britain from 1967 to 2005 in capacities from 3.5 to 5.0 liters.

Roving bridge

A roving bridge, also called a turnover or snake bridge, carries a canal towpath across the water so a towing horse can cross without detaching the towline.

Rovo

Rovo is Atlassian's AI product line for enterprise search, conversational chat, and AI agents, announced in May 2024 as the successor to Atlassian Intelligence and powered by the Teamwork Graph.

Row address strobe

The row address strobe (RAS) is the signal, later a command bit, that tells a DRAM chip which row of cells to access, surviving in timings like tRAS.

Row hammer

Row hammer, also written Rowhammer, is a security vulnerability in DRAM memory in which repeatedly activating one row flips bits in adjacent rows, enabling privilege escalation attacks.

Row- and column-major order

Row- and column-major order are the two ways of storing a multidimensional array in linear memory; C and NumPy use row-major, Fortran and MATLAB column-major.

Row-level security

Row-level security (RLS) is a database feature restricting which rows of a table a user can read or modify, enforced by a security predicate at the database tier.

Rowan steam railmotor

The Rowan steam railmotor was a self-propelled steam carriage combining engine, driver's cabin, and passenger compartment, designed by William Robert Rowan of Copenhagen and entering service in Victoria, Australia in 1883.

Rox 01

The Rox 01 (极石01), also sold as the Polestones 01 or Polar Stone 01, is a large off-road-capable extended-range electric SUV from Chinese maker Rox Motor, first launched in China in 2023.

Rox Motor (极石汽车)

Rox Motor (极石汽车), also known as Jishi, is a Chinese new energy vehicle maker founded in Shanghai in January 2021 by Roborock CEO Chang Jing, maker of the ROX 01.

Roxboro Steam Plant

The Roxboro Steam Plant is a four-unit, coal-fired power station with 2,558 MW of capacity, operated by Duke Energy Progress near Semora, North Carolina, since 1966.

Roy Bainer

Roy Bainer (1902–1990) was an American agricultural engineer at the University of California, Davis, where he served as founding dean of the College of Engineering from 1962.

Roy E. Olson

Roy E. Olson (1931–2024) was an American geotechnical engineer and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Roy F. Weston

Roy F. Weston (1910/11–2007) was an American environmental engineer who founded Roy F. Weston, Inc. in 1957, building it into one of the nation's first Superfund contractors.

Roy G. Gordon

Roy G. Gordon, also known as Roy Gordon, is an American Harvard chemist, born in 1940, known for low-E window coatings, semiconductor thin films, and organic flow batteries.

Roy Lee (entrepreneur)

Roy Lee, also known as Chungin Lee, is an entrepreneur and CEO of Cluely, an AI startup he co-founded in 2025 after being suspended from Columbia University.

Royal Academy of Engineering

The Royal Academy of Engineering is the United Kingdom's national academy for engineering, a chartered charity founded in 1976 whose elected Fellows promote engineering for the public benefit.

Royal Air Force College Cranwell

The Royal Air Force College Cranwell, also known as RAF College Cranwell, is the RAF's initial officer training academy at RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, opened in 1920.

Royal Air Force Fighter Command

Royal Air Force Fighter Command was the RAF command responsible for Britain's air defense from 1936 to 1968, best known for winning the Battle of Britain under Hugh Dowding.

Royal Air Force station

A Royal Air Force station, also known as an RAF Station, is a permanent operating base of the RAF, home to its Wings and commanded by a Commanding Officer.

Royal Air Maroc (الخطوط الملكية المغربية)

Royal Air Maroc (الخطوط الملكية المغربية) is the state-owned flag carrier of Morocco, founded in 1957 and headquartered in Casablanca, serving over 100 destinations and a oneworld member since 2020.

Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool

The Royal Albert Dock is a complex of Grade I listed dock warehouses on Liverpool's waterfront, built in 1843–7 to Jesse Hartley's design and regenerated as a visitor attraction.

Royal Armouries

The Royal Armouries is the UK's National Museum of Arms and Armour, Britain's oldest public museum, tracing its roots to the working arsenal at the Tower of London.