Toyota создаст луноход следующего поколения

23 July 2019

Япония хочет полететь на Луну со своим транспортом

Last week marked the half century of the historic landing of man on the moon. The project "Apollo" was performed by the American NASA in 1969-1971 With those long legs of man on our natural satellite was not, but plans to return there are available, for example, China and Japan.
Coincidentally, July 16, Toyota and the Japanese space Agency JAXA has signed a 3-year agreement on joint research for the design of a manned Rover. The partners are going to build, to test and evaluate the prototype space of the electric vehicle fuel cell, which as stated officially: "it will be a modified version of the standard production car". While the task of its launch to the moon is not necessary, and 2019 will be devoted to defining key elements of performance characteristics of the Rover.

A prototype lunar Rover taken from the production model Toyota will be in the form of a reduced-scale layout, because the size of the real Rover will be comparable to the two minivans. So, its length is 6000 mm, width 5200 mm, and height 3800 mm. Thus, for the two astronauts planned to create a residential area of 13 m2. Mileage of Toyota Rover on the lunar surface is planned over 10 000 km, Respectively, JAXA intends to gather into a single team in the technological capabilities of the country of the Rising sun. So what if Rover appears, he becomes a fetus is not a separate organization, and so to say "team Japan" – Team Japan.
To implement the agreement Toyota has formed a new division Lunar Exploration Mobility Works, which by year end will be 30 employees. In 2020 it is planned to create a prototype, and in 2021-th – testing services. 2022 the test the lunar Rover in 1:1 scale to check driving systems. Accordingly, in 2024-m appears fully functional prototype, and only then will begin modeling its flight to the moon. In 2027, will be made working Rover on the moon and it will be sent somewhere in 2029. Date is still tentative and subject to change..