11/30/2023 0 Comments Lunar rover![]() "This is the dawn of the lunar economy," Hakamada noted in the SpaceX launch webcast. Now, "it's the excitement of the business." NASA's Apollo moonshots were all "about the excitement of the technology," said ispace founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada, who wasn't alive then. Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of astronauts' last lunar landing, by Apollo 17's Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt on Dec. has put astronauts on the lunar surface: 12 men over six landings. and China have achieved so-called "soft landings" on the moon, beginning with the former Soviet Union's Luna 9 in 1966. Although not launching until early next year, lunar landers built by Pittsburgh's Astrobotic Technology and Houston's Intuitive Machines may beat ispace to the moon thanks to shorter cruise times. With Sunday's predawn launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, ispace is now on its way to becoming one of the first private entities to attempt a moon landing. But instead of landing gently, the spacecraft Beresheet slammed into the moon and was destroyed. ![]() The lunar rover built by ispace never launched.Īnother finalist, an Israeli nonprofit called SpaceIL, managed to reach the moon in 2019. A second lunar landing by the private company is planned for 2024 and a third in 2025.įounded in 2010, ispace was among the finalists in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition requiring a successful landing on the moon by 2018. In Asian folklore, a white rabbit is said to live on the moon. The ispace mission is called Hakuto, Japanese for white rabbit. ![]()
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