Last Updated: 23rd December, 2022
Toyota Motor Corporation as of late reported its resolution to team up with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) so as to “quicken their continuing joint investigation of a crewed, pressurized rover that utilizes fuel cell electric vehicle mechanization.” According to Toyota, this rover of theirs would have a complete lunar-surface cruising scope of more than 10,000 kilometers.
“Crewed rovers with pressurized cabins are a component that will assume a critical job in full-fledged investigation and utilization of the lunar surface. For this, we might want to focus our nation’s innovative capacities and lead technological investigations,” remarked by JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa.
Highlights:
- Toyota to collaborate with JAXA
- Both companies are currently studying a crewed, pressurised lunar rover
- JAXA plans to have crewed lunar missions in the 2030s
“Through our joint investigations going ahead, we might want to put to utilize Toyota’s magnificent technological capacities identified with portability, and we anticipate the speeding up of our innovative investigations for the acknowledgment of a crewed, pressurized rover,” JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa added.
Tokyo, Japan, March 12, 2019―The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announce their agreement today to consider the possibility of collaborating on international space exploration. As a first step, JAXA and Toyota have reached agreement to further cooperate on and accelerate their ongoing joint study of a crewed, pressurized rover that employs fuel cell electric vehicle technologies.
Despite the fact that JAXA has, no clear lunar missions anticipated the not so distant future, it plans to send people to the moon during the 2030s. It envisions to send a rover like the one being right now contemplated with Toyota in 2029.
Truth be told, as per JAXA, the two organizations have been concentrating the idea of a crewed, pressurized rover since May 2018 and has so far distinguished key technological issues that must be solved so as to proceed onward.
The crewed, pressurized rover being referred to is relied upon to utilize Toyota’s fuel cell technology, which Toyota assumes is the path forward regarding clean power generation.
The rover, when constructed and sent, is required to be 6 meters long, 5.2 meters in width and 3.8 meters in height. The living space inside should be around 13 meters. JAXA and Toyota’s rover ought to board two persons generally yet be sufficient for four persons in an emergency.
