{"id":140396,"date":"2021-04-28T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T04:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=140396&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-04-28T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T04:35:25","slug":"kyukodai-prepares-lunar-rover-for-trip-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kyukodai-prepares-lunar-rover-for-trip-to-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyukodai Prepares Lunar Rover For Trip to The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tests for the first domestic lunar rover, \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dymon.co.jp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yaoki<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u2019 was conducted at Kyushu Institute of Technology on Apr. 26. The Tokyo-based startup, Dymon Co., Ltd., spent the past ten years developing the 500-gram, two-wheeled machine. Yaoki will be flown to the moon on an American rocket in the fall of 2021 and is expected to complete the world\u2019s first landing of a lunar rover made by a private organization. <\/span><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/lnews\/kitakyushu\/20210426\/5020008521.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140397\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/yaoki.jpeg?resize=960%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/yaoki.jpeg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/yaoki.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/yaoki.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yaoki.space\/posts\/127442826071089\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official facebook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tests for the first domestic lunar rover, \u2018Yaoki,\u2019 was conducted at Kyushu Institute of Technology on Apr. 26. The Tokyo-based startup, Dymon Co., Ltd., spent the past ten years developing the 500-gram, two-wheeled machine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":140397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-140396","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-technology","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/140396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}