One mission would send a state-of-the-art lunar rover, in development by Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), to the moon aboard a Starship cargo lander as soon as fiscal year 2032.

Two commercial lunar landers are currently on their way to the Moon, and at least two more are set to follow this year under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Meanwhile, ...

The autonomous 55-pound (25-kilogram) rover is called IDEFIX and is part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Martian Moon Exploration (MMX) probe that aims to collect samples of the ...

NASA agreed to provide two landing slots to Japan in exchange for its role in developing and providing a rover that astronauts ... s first manned lunar missions. JAXA said it has not chosen ...

A new year of lunar exploration kicked off early Wednesday, when two robotic landers and a small rover began their journeys to the moon. A SpaceX rocket lifted off at 1:11 a.m. ET from NASA’s ...

“Takara–Tomy benefits by advertizing how these robots will be used on the Moon and from selling replicas, while JAXA benefits from gaining robots to explore the lunar surface,” he explains.

The only entry from Japan, a small robotic rover developed by Yoshida’s Team Hakuto is capable of being deployed from a light spacecraft, and was one of five finalists. Although no Moon missions ...

The origins of LUPEX date back to December 2017 when ISRO and JAXA formally inked an Implementation ... of collaborative efforts to investigate the Moon's polar areas, particularly with an ...