SpaceX is set Wednesday to launch the first private—and Japanese—lander to the Moon.
A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off at 3:39 am from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a backup date on Thursday.The mission, by Japanese company ispace, is the first of a program called Hakuto-R.
Measuring just over 2 by 2.5 meters, it carries on board a 10-kilogram rover named Rashid, built by the United Arab Emirates. The oil-rich country is a newcomer to thebut counts recent successes including a Mars probe in 2020. If it succeeds, Rashid will be the Arab world's first Moon mission. Hakuto was one of five finalists in the international Google Lunar XPrize competition, a challenge to land a rover on the Moon before a 2018 deadline, which ended without a winner. But some of the projects are still ongoing.
ispace, which has just 200 employees, says it"aims to extend the sphere of human life into space and create a sustainable world by providingFuture missions are set to contribute to NASA's Artemis program. Artemis-1, an uncrewed test flight to the Moon, is currently underway.in orbit around the Moon and a base on the surface.
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