Japan will send an unmanned mission to the moon – Republic

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The Japanese space agency JAXA is considering sending an unmanned mission to the moon by 2018, or the beginning of 2019 . Tokyo hopes to keep pace with the development of space technologies including China – Japanese media reported.

The proposals in this regard 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.

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

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

“The revival of competition and cooperation ws. exploration of the Moon is our impetus for rapid implementation of the objectives “- 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 material. 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 November 30, 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.