HAKUTO-R Moon Lander & Moon Rover
HAKUTO-R is the Program Name for ispace’s first two lunar exploration missions. Mission 1 will entail an orbit around the Moon, while Mission 2 will perform a soft lunar landing and deployment of rovers to collect data from the lunar surface.
ispace has contracted with SpaceX to carry its Lunar Lander and Lunar Rovers for the HAKUTO-R Program as secondary payloads on it’s Falcon-9 rocket. The launches for the first and second missions for HAKUTO-R will occur in mid-2020 and mid-2021.
After being deployed from the launch vehicle at GTO, the lander will ignite its thruster and head to the moon. Then it will enter the lunar orbit, land on the lunar surface and deploy the rover. The lander can carry over 30kg of payloads and the rover is the world smallest planetary exploration rover.
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HAKUTO-R
HAKUTO-R
HAKUTO-R is the world’s first private lunar exploration program. It includes ispace’s first two lunar exploration missions: Mission 1, a Moon orbit in mid-2020, and Mission 2, a Moon landing in mid-2021. For both missions, ispace’s lunar lander and rovers will be carried as secondary payloads on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. HAKUTO-R is intended to lay the groundwork for high-frequency commercial missions.