Company

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Japan · named on public Moon flights

JAXA is Japan's national aerospace agency. On the lunar tunnel it is the agency owner of SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) with Multi-Band Camera, LEV-1, and LEV-2 (Sora-Q), and co-manifested Sora-Q with Takara Tomy / Sony partners on ispace Hakuto-R Mission 1.

Hardware

SLIM

Lander · JAXA Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) precision landing tech demo. · SLIM

Sora-Q

Hardware · Sora-Q is a transformable robot from JAXA, Takara Tomy, Sony, and Doshisha University. · Hakuto-R Mission 1

Multi-Band Camera (MBC)

Hardware · JAXA Multi-Band Camera on SLIM for mineralogical imaging at high spatial resolution near Shioli crater. · SLIM

LDA

Hardware · Astronaut-deployed dielectric analyzer to map how lunar regolith carries an electric field, a path to polar volatiles and frost or ice.

Jobs

Cargo

LEV-2 (Sora-Q)

JAXA / Takara Tomy / Sony / Doshisha LEV-2 Sora-Q transformable robot on SLIM, same product family as Hakuto-R M1 Sora-Q. · SLIM · 2023-09-07

Flights

SLIM2023-09-07 · JAXA SLIM precision soft-landing demo.
Starship Lunar Cargo (HLS path)NET late 2020s-2030s (HLS path) · SpaceX Starship lunar architecture: NASA HLS crew lander path plus heavy cargo configurations.
Artemis IVNET early 2028 · NASA: Artemis IV is the first planned crewed south-polar landing, early 2028.
ispace Mission 4 polar landerNET 2029 · ispace Japan polar landing, currently scheduled 2029, on the ULTRA lander line (same ULTRA design used on Mission 3).
Gateway PPE + HALOPaused · Paused Gateway integrated architecture: Maxar Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) with Northrop Grumman HALO habitation.

Sources

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