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Tokyo-headquartered company ispace announced on Thursday it is sending a tiny toy red Swedish house to the Moon.is an artistic and epic story that Mikael has envisioned for 25 years. The story of the Moonhouse, a small red house on the surface of the Moon, will finally come to fruition with ispace leading to an iconic artwork filled with new possibilities and new ideas,"
Swedish artist Mikael Genberg is ispace’s final payload customer for the HAKUTO-R Mission 2, which is expected to bring the Resilience lunar lander and Tenacious micro rover to the Mare Frigoris in the Moon's northern hemisphere – a sun-drenched bit of prime real estate with a clear line of communication to Earth.
The house will hitch a ride to the Moon in the payload bay of the Resilience lander, secured to the front of the Tenacious rover. Eventually it will be deployed to the lunar surface. The launch is set to take place sometime after December 2024, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.Genberg is known for creating whimsical architectual structures in unusual places – for instance, a treehouse hotel in Vasteras, Sweden, or an, also in Sweden.
Tokyo-based ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada revealed that Resilience lander assembly and integration is complete and on schedule."As we have said all along, Mission 2 development and mission planning are being determined based on feedback from the lessons learned during Mission 1.
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