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  • Toyota And Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency To Collaboratively Build New Lunar Rover
    Toyota logo
    Toyota Motor Corp and Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency have announced plans to collaboratively build a new autonomous rover that will be sent to the moon.
  • Toyota prepares for its first lunar mission.
    A computer graphic handout image shows Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa 2 probe arrives to asteroid Ryugu in outer space.
    JAXA will work with Toyota to send an astronaut into the Moon's surface.
  • Japan Will Use Humanoid ‘Avatar Robots’ To Explore The Solar Systerm
    First Japanese on the Moon
    The first Japanese astronauts on the Moon will be immortal. Japan, the world leader in humanoid robotics, won't land flesh and blood human beings on the Moon, but aluminum and carbon fiber "avatar robots" that won't die.
  • Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Prepares for Asteroid Soil Capture and Return to Earth
    Incredible!
    Following the successful landing of its two mini-rovers on the asteroid Ryugu on Sept. 22, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft prepares for the next critical parts of its mission -- deploying the heavy Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) rover to the surface and returning to Earth with asteroid soil samples on December 2020.
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