Thursday, April 23, 2015

Japan also wants to go to the Moon – Pulse of Business

Offers in this case were to be submitted to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology the day before. JAXA needs for the project funding and hopes to capture them from authorities in Tokyo. The Agency is also considering the possibility of organizing a future commercial flights into space.

mission would take place at the beginning of fiscal year 2018, or 12 months later.

The documents also highlighted the need to avoid a “power imbalance” in the race to the moon, which already involved China, India, Russia and other countries.

“Revival of competition and cooperation ws. lunar exploration incentive for us to rapidly implement the goals, “- says the document, which was submitted to the Ministry of Education.

With limited forces JAXA has already achieved in the space program. In December 2014 years in the hope of getting to know the origins of the Earth, the Japanese fired into space probe, which will aim to explore a distant asteroid. During the six-year mission Hayabusa2 is sampled from the surface and interior of the celestial body.

The probe was launched into space from the station Tanegashima in southern Japan. It is estimated that it will reach the asteroid JU3 in 2018, and will be tested by the next 18 months.

At this time, no fire missile on its surface and collect samples thus detached rock . Scientists estimate that, with this technique will stand out on an asteroid crater, so that you can download sample materials naïve to the effects of solar radiation. Hayabusy2 mission is to be completed in 2020.

Originally Hayabusy2 mission was to begin on 30 November, but bad weather prevented a safe start. This is the second operation of this type of Japanese space agency (JAXA). First, the research on asteroids, began in 2003 and ended in 2010.

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