Japan plans to land rover on moon in 2018
SentinelSource.com / April 26, 2015
JAXA, Japan’s space agency announced this week that the country would put an unmanned rover on the surface of the moon by 2018, joining an elite club of nations that have explored Earth’s satellite…
…“This is an initial step and a lot of procedures are still ahead before the plan is formally approved,” a JAXA spokesperson told reporters. If it is approved, the agency will reportedly use its Epsilon solid-fuel rocket technology to carry and deploy a SLIM probe -- the acronym stands for “Smart Lander for Investigating Moon”…more...
The JAXA spokesperson went on to explain that,"upon landing on the moon the SLIM probe will send and receive all of its data by fax."
