artemis programme

 Toyota Motor plans to use regenerative fuel cell technology to power a manned lunar rover, executives said on Friday, raising the prospect of eventually using the moon's water ice as an energy source in the future. Japan has stepped up its space ambitions under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. It is participating in NASA's Artemis programme and plans to have an astronaut at a lunar space station called Gateway as part of that in the latter half of the 2020's.Toyota has teamed up with Japan's space agency since 2019 to…

Tokyo, Japanese lunar exploration company ispace has successfully launched a lander on lunar orbit.The Mission 1 Lander performed its first lunar orbit insertion manoeuvre in accordance with the mission operation plan, at 10:24 JST (6:54a-am IST) on Tuesday, at the HAKUTO-R Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo."HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander is now safely orbiting the Moon following a lunar orbit insertion manoeuvre," the company said in a statement.The lander aims to touch down on the Moon late next month.After a…