Car manufacturer’s Toyota is joining hands with Japan Space Agency for the Lunar Mission
On Wednesday, officials and local media said that a car manufacturing company Toyota and Japan’s space agency linked up for the planned mission to the Moon. The Japanese are the auto giant expected to build up a lunar rover.
After the company sending a jointly developed small robot to the International space station, they made their entry to the space exploration. This is for the first time that any car manufacturer is making a full-fledged entry into space investigation.
A Spokesman with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency informed that they are planning to work together with Toyota in exploration to the Moon. On Tuesday next week, the spokesman notified AFP that Toyota and JAXA will announce the details when the space agency hosts a conference in Tokyo.
Toyota assured their plans to announce a joint project with JAXA mainly on the mobility and a Space probe and they further refused to comment. A press news agency declared that the car giant is estimated to together develop mobility method which will be used for the lunar surface for the mission.
This mission is part of the improved global interest in the Moon; sometimes it is called the ‘eighth continent’ of the earth, and also comes 50 years after American astronauts first walked on the lunar surface.
NASA targets to land an unmanned vehicle on the Moon by 2024 before humans stepped on the lunar surface again.
Till now, Russia, the United States, and China have made the 384,000- kilometer journey and grounded spacecraft on the Moon. Last month, Israel launched a spacecraft and aims to join them. In the year 2017, Japan exposed this plan to set an astronaut on Moon in 2030.
