The mission is tentatively called SELENE-R. Volatile materials under the surface are expected to be useful for future human activity on the Moon, and will reveal the history of the Solar System. Furthermore, polar regions are one of the best candidates for a lunar base because they are ...
Takasago Thermal Engineering has handed over a specialised electrolyser to Ispace for upcoming lunar mission Japanese private lunar exploration company Ispace plans to produce the first hydrogen from electrolysis on the moon during a mission set to launch this winter — which if successful, could be ...
The agreement comes as ispace prepares for the launch of its second lunar lander mission, with hopes of succeeding where its predecessor lander failed. That mission, ispace's first attempt at landing on the moon, ended in a crash due to a fault in the lander's an altitude sensor. For...
The paper discusses the Japanese first lunar mission named "Hiten". The spacecraft system, its major mission objectives, namely, the double lunar swingby experiments and the insertion of a miniaturized sub-satellite into an orbit around the moon, are presented. The results of these engineering mi...
Kept confidential until the late 1970s, they offer an unprecedented, intimate glimpse into the groundbreaking lunar mission. You hear them crack jokes, express hopes and fears, admit mistakes, wonder at the view, lose things, find things, encourage, congratulate and poke fun at each othe...
The company's lunar exploration program includes another lander, which is scheduled to take another rover to a moon in 2024. A third mission is being planned. Hakamada told CBS News that if possible, the goal is to set "high-frequency transportation to the lunar surface to support scientific...
The Japanese Lunar Mission "Kaguya" carried out its first magnetic field and plasma measurements in the Earth's magnetotail on 22 December 2007. Fortuitously, three well-defined multiple onset substoms took place. Kaguya was located in the premidnight magnetotail at radial distances of 56 R_E an...
The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan, plans to undertake a lunar mission, named as LUNAR-A, which is to be launched in 1997. The scientific objective of the mission is to explore the lunar interior using seismometry and heat-flow measurement to obtain a better unde...
The data obtained will be used in the planning of future lunar missions, for example as part of the US-led “Artemis” program. NASA wants to bring people to the moon again after more than 50 years – although the lunar landing mission “Artemis 3” was recently postponed to September 202...
SELENE-2 is the first lunar landing mission of Japan. We are developing a broadband seismometer system as a powerful candidate for a payload instrument. In this paper, we demonstrate the necessity of broadband seismometer observation and its scientific targets. The Apollo projects in 1970's install...