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Japan Could Become the Second Country to Put Boots on the Moon
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/ … rtnership/
Japan wants in on NASA’s Artemis program, which is aiming to return Americans to the surface of the moon in the next decade. While Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has long voiced its support for the program, the move could lead to a Japanese astronaut setting foot on the lunar surface in the coming years. If that happens, Japan will become the second nation to place a person on the moon.
BMW likely planning a shift to cylindrical battery cells in next-generation EVs
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/11 … ration-evs
China has discreetly taken 10 per cent of the world's market for hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. Here's a look at the company leading the charge
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-di … 00418.html
A research team in Korea has synthesized metal nanoparticles that can drastically improve the performance of hydrogen fuel cell catalysts by using the semiconductor manufacturing technology.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/944760
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The Moons of Mars?
https://twitter.com/mmx_jaxa_en/status/ … 3796572161
Our rover team joined the field test & conference for the DLR_en robotics “ARCHES Project” in Italy, testing technology such as autonomous functions for sample collection & cooperative operation with multiple robots. We’re excited to see the result in the MMX rover development!
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UNOOSA And Japan Open Fellowship Opportunity To Study Nanosatellite Development
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Goodyear is developing metal tires for moon buggies
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In Japan companies the ESG conversations are usually led by investor-relations teams rather than by the CEO and board, Environmental Social and Governance a way for Japan checking its sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a business or company.
In recent weeks, mainstream Japanese media, echoing their foreign counterparts, have begun reporting second thoughts about the wisdom of investments and corporate policies based on environmental, social and governance ESG concerns.
This appears to be laying the groundwork for a revisionist pivot away from ESG and its close cousin, sustainable development goals (SDG), roughly five years after the twin utopian projects were launched. The religious overtones of woke capitalism never attracted true believers in Japan, in contrast to countries with a Christian heritage of sin, repentance, redemption and salvation.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Japan-I … y-from-ESG
Japan Inc. is getting ready to pivot away from ESG
'ESG is a scam’: Elon Musk after S&P500 removes Tesla from list
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/busines … ry-2691251
Japan to start research on places on moon, Mars for humans
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14662554
Lunar Martian Habitat?
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science … 714-44661/
JAXA to develop spacecraft to resupply lunar orbiting station
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13061947
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Their astronauts have years of experience, veteran Koichi Wakata has flown on the Shuttle and Soyuz.
They have no manned rocket. Through the Pirate Sector Japanese still secure place in space. NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina on Space-X.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts are just about ready for launch
https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/nas … out-ready/
A quick guide to the new lunar landers and rovers
https://www.fastcompany.com/90770975/a- … and-rovers
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DIY Airless Tires Work Surprisingly Well
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Hyundai And Kia Are Going To The Moon With South Korea’s Space Agency
https://www.carscoops.com/2022/07/hyund … ce-agency/
Japan aims to bring back soil samples from Mars moon by 2029
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14421867
Japan’s space agency plans to bring soil samples back from the Mars region ahead of the U.S. and Chinese missions now operating on Mars, in hopes of finding clues to the planet’s origin and traces of possible life.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, plans to launch an explorer in 2024 to land on the Martian moon Phobos to collect 10 grams (0.35 ounce) of soil and bring it back to Earth in 2029.
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JAXA Selects 2 New Candidates for Japan’s Astronaut Corps
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science … 228-94025/
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Demand could rise
The market suddenly gets smaller again, a failure from India, the Vega failure, Soyuz is gone from French Guiana in south America and now the Japanese rocket failed.
'H-3 failure could deal setback for Japan’s entire space policy'
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14856430
Toyota heading to moon with cruiser, robotic arms, dreams
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14534415
The vehicle being developed with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is called Lunar Cruiser, whose name pays homage to the Toyota Land Cruiser sport utility vehicle. Its launch is set for the late 2020’s.
The vehicle is based on the idea that people eat, work, sleep and communicate with others safely in cars, and the same can be done in outer space, said Takao Sato, who heads the Lunar Cruiser project at Toyota Motor Corp.
“We see space as an area for our once-in-a-century transformation. By going to space, we may be able to develop telecommunications and other technology that will prove valuable to human life,” Sato told The Associated Press.
Gitai Japan Inc., a venture contracted with Toyota, has developed a robotic arm for the Lunar Cruiser, designed to perform tasks such as inspection and maintenance. Its “grapple fixture” allows the arm’s end to be changed so it can work like different tools, scooping, lifting and sweeping.
Gitai Chief Executive Sho Nakanose said he felt the challenge of blasting off into space has basically been met but working in space entails big costs and hazards for astronauts. That’s where robots would come in handy, he said.
Since its founding in the 1930s, Toyota has fretted about losing a core business because of changing times. It has ventured into housing, boats, jets and robots. Its net-connected sustainable living quarters near Mount Fuji, called Woven City, where construction is starting this year.
Japanese fascination with the moon has been growing.
A private Japanese venture called ispace Inc. is working on lunar rovers, landing and orbiting, and is scheduled for a moon landing later this year. Businessman Yusaku Maezawa, who recently took videos of himself floating around in the International Space Station, has booked an orbit around the moon aboard Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Starship.
Toyota engineer Shinichiro Noda said he is excited about the lunar project, an extension of the automaker’s longtime mission to serve customers and the moon may provide valuable resources for life on Earth.
“Sending our cars to the moon is our mission,” he said. Toyota has vehicles almost everywhere. “But this is about taking our cars to somewhere we have never been.”
Japan's Nissan slashing EV costs, cuts rare materials use. rare materials were 25% of the weight of the first-generation Nissan Leaf in 2019; Nissan aims to make that 1% or less.
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-jap … -rare.html
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A nice sales video
Lander ispace HAKUTO-R
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJCfUVgCYjc
Japan now helps an islamic Theocrat Sharia Law monarchy get to the Moon, the Emirates Arab Rover was on Space X Elon Musk's Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket.
an islamic ambassador once answered Thomas Jefferson that rights of a terror Moongod called al-Lah were founded on the Laws of the Prophet, this Sharia Law was written in their Quran or Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were haram infidel kuffir sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever the sinner could be found, and to make them pay extra taxes and tribute or to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every 'Mussulman' who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise,
Quran 3 : 169 -170 writes Think not of those who are slain in for the demon Moongod of Babylon named for al-Lah's way as dead. Nay, they live, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord; They rejoice in the bounty provided by the Moongod al-Lah: And with regard to those left behind, who have not yet joined them in their blissfulness, the Martyr glory in the fact that on them is no fear, nor have they cause to grieve."
they would be rewarded with virgins and little boys as beautiful as pearls to serve them, the founder of islam mahomet did after all marry a 6 yr old Aisha and now we will proliferate this 'culture' across the solar system?
There is a strange X-rated demonic pornographic paradise promised to jihadi men of islam, many of the islamic culture do not consider boys to be men yet...so they make them dress up like girls or women?
People wonder where 'Bacha Bazi' culture comes from it is written in their so-called holy texts that “Immortal boys will go around them serving”.
Will they start giving cluster of rocks mohammedan jihadi names or Japan folklore names?
Saving cultures across the solar system as other cultures go extinct??
Another discussion on newmars.
'Language Preservation'
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9149
On Jan. 20, our HAKUTO-R M1 lander reached it’s furthest point, approx. 1.4 million km from Earth. Since then, it has been making its way closer again, and is now approx. 450,000 km from Earth and approaching lunar orbit.
https://twitter.com/ispace_inc/status/1 … 6395579394
The company ispace Inc. is a private Japanese company developing robotic spacecraft, the White rabbit Moon craft Hakuto or formerly White Label Space was a team formed in early 2008 by a group of experienced space professionals inspired by the challenge of the Google Lunar X PRIZE.
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More lunar missions means more space junk around the moon. Two scientists are building a catalog to track the trash.
https://www.space.com/moon-missions-1st … space-junk
What happens when you get surrounded culturally by yes-men and a lower hierarchy caste of control afraid to say no or even ask questions?
'Major yikes. I guess I didn't quite realize that Japan put a satellite valued at more than a quarter of a billion dollars on the debut flight of the H3 rocket. That's pretty damn bold.'
https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/ … 3418659851
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Japan's ispace to list shares in Tokyo ahead of moon landing
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerosp … on-landing
The company has a contract with NASA to ferry payloads to the moon from 2025 and is aiming to build a permanently staffed lunar colony by 2040.
UK Space Agency funds Rolls-Royce's bid to put a nuclear reactor on the moon
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-sp … 22940.html
The technology is estimated to arrive by 2029.
Ford Nucleon a concept car developed by Ford designed as a future nuclear-powered car.
'Nukemobiles on Mars'
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7358
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Why is landing safely on the Moon so hard: The failure of the ispace lunar lander highlights the challenges, in particular for nascent private companies.
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Japan okays GPS tracking for bail after Ghosn case
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Japa … e_999.html
Japan on Wednesday enacted a law authorising courts to use GPS for tracking defendants on bail, a measure pushed for after the dramatic 2019 escape of former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn.
The revised criminal proceedings law approved Wednesday will enable courts to order the placement of GPS devices on defendants to prevent them from fleeing Japan.
The defendants will be banned from removing or destroying the trackers, and prohibited from entering areas designated by courts as off-limits, such as ports and airports.
Violations could incur detention and imprisonment of up to a year.
Calls for GPS monitoring, common in many countries for those on bail or under house arrest, followed Ghosn's escape from Japan after he was smuggled onto a private plane in a large musical equipment case.
Ghosn, who was arrested in November 2018, fled while on bail, facing financial misconduct charges that he denied. He remains an international fugitive.
With help from an American private-security contractor, hidden in a musical instrument box, Ghosn fled from Japan to Lebanon via Turkey on 30 December 2019, by private jet, breaking his bail conditions. On 2 January 2020, Interpol issued a red notice to Lebanon seeking Ghosn's arrest. Since his escape, he has frequently been interviewed by various media, published books, is the subject of a TV series in Europe, and a documentary by BBC's Storyville
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50952335
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https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/carlo … 49539.html
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50972149
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https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/francoi … n-20210427
Ghosn in Lebanon, says he left Japan because of ‘injustice’
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13056069
Nissan's former Chairman Carlos Ghosn said from Lebanon that he was not fleeing justice but instead left Japan to avoid “injustice and political persecution”
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took images of the HAKUTO-R impact site (47.581°N, 44.094°E) the day after the attempted soft lunar landing
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Leidos is working with the racing company NASCAR to develop a lunar rover they will offer for an upcoming NASA competition.
https://spacenews.com/leidos-working-wi … nar-rover/
Leidos unveiled its design April 18 for a Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) that can accommodate two astronauts for excursions on the lunar surface starting with the Artemis 5 mission in the late 2020s. The rover could be used autonomously as well when not needed by astronauts.
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NASA Seeks Industry Proposals for Next-Generation Lunar Rover
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A helpful tool when following the Chinese space sector: AI sharpening
On the left, the lunar rover for China's upcoming crewed lunar mission in ~2030. And on the right, the sharpened higher res result.
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Toyota unveils out-of-this-world ‘Lunar Cruise’ vehicle: ‘A significant step towards the moon and a greener Earth’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world-larges … 00794.html
Toyota is reaching for the stars with its latest development, a Lunar Cruiser powered using groundbreaking technology.
As part of Japan’s efforts to expand its presence in space exploration, Reuters reported its manned lunar rover is expected to head to the moon sometime in 2029, when it’s hoped a Japanese astronaut will be posted at the Gateway lunar space station. Concept images made the rounds on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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Japanese Moon Mission Carrying Weird Rolling Robot
https://futurism.com/the-byte/japanese- … ling-robot
It was inspired by children's toys.
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The SLIM mission
Seems like it might try Moon on the afternoon of the 4th day of October.
https://twitter.com/slim_jaxa/status/17 … 7746999525
Toyota’s Lunar Cruiser: from Earth to the moon and back
https://www.toyota-europe.com/news/2023/lunar-cruiser
Toyota contributes to the NASA's Artemis Programme to expand human presence in space
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Japanese government grant to support work on new ispace lunar lander
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insertion into lunar orbit
SLIM compared with
https://twitter.com/nvslive/status/1739270189416603805
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Japanese astronauts will join NASA moon landings in return for lunar rover
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