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.

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 ...

We are very proud of being the first lunar rover to be fully completed in Europe ... or better known as JAXA. The first mission did capture stunning photos of Earth while the spacecraft was ...

JAXA researcher Kawai Yuta says he can't wait ... ispace is part of a private-sector boom in lunar exploration. A lunar rover the firm developed was a finalist in a contest run by entities ...

Thales Alenia Space (TAS) has secured an 862 million euro contract to design and construct Argonaut, a European lander set for regular missions to the Moon ... Continue Reading → ...

“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.

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 ...

This campaign, called Send Your Name with VIPER, will see your name sent to the moon’s surface aboard NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) later this year.