As first announced last June but just now starting to ship, a new scale model of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Lunar Cruiser not only faithfully reproduces the details of the ...

Designed by car-maker Toyota and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Lunar Cruiser is considered a "mobile habitat and labroratory" that astronauts would be able to live in for ...

NASA and JAXA also reached an agreement in April 2024 where JAXA will develop a pressurized lunar rover called Lunar Cruiser for use on later Artemis missions, enabling longer expeditions from ...

As for other future lunar vehicles, Toyota Motor Corp. and JAXA are currently developing the manned exploration Luna Cruiser and aiming to launch it in 2029.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a lunar orbiter satellite, "Kaguya," on September 14, 2007. This orbiter had 15 observational instruments, including NHK's Hi-Vision (HDTV ...

Space is central to Toyota’s long-term strategy, and other car manufacturers are also turning to satellite solutions.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is developing the vehicle, nicknamed the Lunar Cruiser, with Toyota Motor ... s first manned lunar missions. JAXA said it has not chosen astronauts for ...

“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.

daddy Lunar Cruiser. The latter is a pressurised moon rover that has been designed in conjunction with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to aid with its international space exploration ...

The lunar landing is scheduled at 0:20 JST. Japan will become just the fifth country to soft-land on the Moon successfully, after Russia, the US, China and India. JAXA, in a statement ...

Japan's space agency, Jaxa, has confirmed Slim spacecraft's response to commands from Earth, demonstrating its resilience during the harsh lunar nights. Despite a nose-down landing, Slim fulfils ...