Porozumienie NASA z JAXA dokładnie nie precyzuje szczegółów współpracy księżycowej, ale Japonia może wnieść znaczący wkład w program Artemis i Gateway.NASA and JAXA reaffirm intent to cooperate in lunar explorationby Jeff Foust — September 25, 2019
JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signed a joint statement Sept. 24 reaffirming plans to cooperate on lunar exploration, including Japanese contributions to the Gateway and lunar surface exploration. Credit: NASA/Matt Rydin(...) Those contributions may include a Japanese habitation module for the Gateway as well as logistics using the HTV-X vehicle, an advanced version of the H-2 Transfer Vehicle currently used to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
“JAXA’s capabilities, and the nation of Japan’s capabilities, are significant,” Bridenstine said in a joint press conference with Yamakawa Sept. 25.
“The United States and NASA would love to see Japan and JAXA working with us on building that space station in orbit around the moon.”“A habitation module is just the beginning. It will need to be served by a logistics capability,” he continued. “
The H3 rocket and the HTV-X cargo capsule could very well provide logistics to the Gateway.”
The announcement didn’t provide a timetable for providing either the habitation module or logistics services, although they would likely come only later in the 2020s, after the first landing in 2024. (...)
The two countries are also considering Japanese roles for lunar surface systems. Bridenstine said he and Yamakawa have
discussed the Japanese development of a pressurized rover that could be used by astronauts on the lunar surface. JAXA is already studying the development of such a rover in cooperation with automaker Toyota. (...)
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