Japanese company's lander rockets toward moon with UAE rover

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A Tokyo company is aiming for the moon with its own private lander, which blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Sunday atop a SpaceX rocket. It will take nearly five months for the lander and its experiments to reach the moon.

In addition, the lander is carrying an orange-sized sphere from the Japanese Space Agency that will transform into a wheeled robot on the moon. Also flying: a solid state battery from a Japanese-based spark plug company; an Ottawa, Ontario, company’s flight computer with artificial intelligence for identifying geologic features seen by the UAE rover; and 360-degree cameras from a Toronto-area company.

The ispace mission is called Hakuto, Japanese for white rabbit. In Asian folklore, a white rabbit is said to live on the moon. A second lunar landing by the private company is planned for 2024 and a third in 2025.competition requiring a successful landing on the moon by 2018. The lunar rover built by ispace never launched.Another finalist, an Israeli nonprofit called SpaceIL, managed to reach the moon in 2019.

 

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They got a load of macaroni To be delivered on Moon 🌛 Next load will be a pepperoni That's how we aliens coming lure!

Paid with all the peoples taxes?

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They got a load of macaroni To be delivered on Moon 🌛 Next load will be a pepperoni That's how we aliens come lure!

Space X ought to stick their CEO in one of those rockets and launch him.

The world is overdoing this and it's the result of the greed of companies like SpaceX.

I don’t care

Wait 5 months? Didn't the USA just send a ship to circle the moon in weeks?

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