Hander the special moon from Japan ClosingIt aims to land in the far north uneven with a mini -Rover.
Attempting the moon to land by ISPace, based on Friday, Time Japan The latest entry In the rapid commercial lunar rush.
The appearance comes two years after the end of the company’s first satellite in A. DeclineThis led to the elasticity of the name behind Lander. It carries flexibility with a shovel to collect lunar dirt in addition to a red house for the Swedish artist who will be downloaded on the dusty moon.
For a long time in the province of governments, the moon became a target for private clothes in 2019, with more fluctuations from winning along the way.
It was launched in January from Florida on a long journey, roundabout, flexibility entered the moon’s orbit last month. She participated in a Spacex trip with Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost, which reached the moon faster and became the first special entity to descend successfully in March.
Another American company, intuitive machines, arrived in the moon a few days after Al -Wirefish. But the long long inverted in the face in a hole near the southern pole of the moon and declared dead within hours.
Flexibility targets the top of the moon, which is a less prohibited place than the mysterious bottom. The ISPACE team chose a flat area with a little rock in Mary, or a sea of cold, which is a long and tight area full of drilling and old lava flows that extend across the northern layer on the near side.
Once stabilized with the flow of energy and communications, the flexibility with an area of 7.5 feet (2.3 meters) will reduce the pig’s Rover on the moon.
Carbon fiber reinforced plastic with four wheels, ISPace, which was created by the European-called Tenacious-a high-resolution camera to detect the region and scrapes to heat some NASA lunar dirt.
Rover, which weighs only 11 lbs (5 kilograms), will adhere to the landing, and go in circles at a speed of one inch (a few centimeters) per second.
In addition to scientific and technical experiences, there is an artistic touch.
Rover carries a small red cottage in the Swedish style with a white trim and a green door called Moonhouse by the creator Mikael Genberg, to get a position on the moon.
Takeshi Hakamada, CEO and founder of ISPace, is the latest “just a starting point”, with its next launch, greater than 2027 with NASA’s participation, and more to follow up.
“We are not trying to park the market. We are trying to build the market,” said Jeremy Reform, the chief engineer of ISPace. “It is a huge market, great potential.”
Fix noticed that ISPace, like other companies, does not have “countless boxes” and cannot bear repeated failures. Although the current task cost is not disclosed, company officials said it was less than the beginning of more than $ 100 million.
Two other American companies aim at Moon a decline by the end of the year: the origin of the Blue Bizos and Astronomical Technology. The first moon’s land in Astrobooth was completely mistaken in 2024 and returned across the Earth’s atmosphere.
For decades, governments competed to reach the moon. Only five countries withdrew the successful lunar landing operations: Russia, the United States, China, India and Japan. Among them, the United States only landed on the surface of the moon: 12 NASA astronauts from 1969 to 1972.
NASA expects to send four astronauts around the moon next year. This will be followed after a year or more from the first moon’s first landing by a crew in more than half a century, with the SPACEX elevator category from the moon’s orbit to the surface. China also has landing plans in Moon for its astronauts by 2030.
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