A private lunar lander from Japan is about to land on the moon, aiming to get a touchdown among the distant rovers who explore the far north.

Tokyo-based company ISPACE's attempt to land the moon on Friday Japanese time is the latest in the rapidly expanding commercial lunar sprint.

The company emerged two years after the company's first moonlight Ended at the crash landingcausing the elasticity of his successor rand. The toughness allows a rover with a shovel and a toy-sized red house of Swedish artists to collect the moon's dirt and will lower it to the moon's dusty surface.

The Moon has long been a government province and became a target for private clothing in 2019, with more losers than wins in the process.

Launched from Florida in January On a long and circling journey, I entered the moon orbit last month. It shares SpaceX with Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost, which reaches the moon faster, Be the first private entity to successfully land there In March.

A few days later, another American intuitive machine arrived at the moon. But the tall, spicy lander face is implanted on a crater near the South Pole of the Moon Death is declared within a few hours.

The elastic target is targeting the top of the moon, which is less pursued than the bottom of the shadow. The ISPACE team chose a flat area, a long and narrow area in a mare fruit or cold ocean, with a long, narrow area filled with craters and ancient lava flows that extend to the north near the north side.

Once power and communication are unimpeded, the 7.5-foot elasticity will lower the reversing rovers to the moon's surface.

Ispace’s European-built rover is made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic and named “Terrible” – with a HD camera to search for the area and shovel up the shovel to scree NASA’s lunar dirt.

The rover weighs just 11 pounds and it will be attached near the lander and circle around at less than 1 inch per second.

“We think I think it will help build the lunar infrastructure and ultimately lead to a permanent, important human presence on the moon,” said Ron Garan, a former space shuttle astronaut and CEO of Ispace USA.

"We are doing an electrolysis experiment. We are doing a food production experiment. We also have some art installations."

Garland said the model of the Swedish house would be taken away from the rover's lander, which would "place it on the surface of the moon." “We’re going to shoot it, and it’s also a very exciting artistic effort.”

Takeshi Hakamada, CEO and Founder of ISPACE, believes the latest moon is “just Steppingstone”, with its next bigger Lander launching in 2027, and there’s more to it as NASA gets involved.

"We are not going to be in the market. We are working to build the market," Jeremy Fix, chief engineer at Ispace's US subsidiary, said at a meeting last month. "It's a huge market with great potential."

FIX notes that, like other businesses, Ispace has no "unlimited funds" and cannot afford repeated failures. While the cost of the current task was not leaked, it was less than the first task that exceeded $100 million, company officials said.

Before the end of the year, two other U.S. companies are targeting the moon: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and astronomy technology. The first moon of astronomy, Lunar Lander, completely missed the moon in 2024 and crashed in the Earth's atmosphere.

For decades, government competition has reached the moon. Only five countries have achieved successful robotic lunar landing sites: Russia, the United States, China, India and Japan. Of these, only the United States brought people to the moon: 12 NASA astronauts from 1969 to 1972.

NASA is expected to send four astronauts on the moon next year. After a year or more, the crew landed on the first lunar month in more than half a century, SpaceX's starship stretched from lunar orbit to the ground. By 2030, China has also formulated a lunar landing plan for its astronauts.