Moon Backpacks for Robots! ๐๐ฏ๐ต
Imagine sending your super cool robot toys on a trip to the Moon! A Japanese company is doing just that!
Hey Future Explorers!
Guess what? A company from Japan called **ispace** is getting ready to send some really important stuff to the Moon! They've booked a super-duper big ride on SpaceX's giant rocket, the Starship, which is like the biggest space bus ever built!
Think of it like this: ispace is packing a huge backpack, about 1,100 pounds heavy (that's like 5 grown-up dogs!), onto this massive rocket. What's in the backpack? It's not lunch, but probably cool tools and equipment for their future moon missions. They want to help us learn more about our lunar neighbor and maybe even find resources there.
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Based on reporting by Space.com.