Japan planning to build moon base with robots

Asian giants, Japan is serious about landing on the moon and it’s already planning how to set up a lunar base with the help of a technology it knows best: robots, a report by Tech Times reveals.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is working with the United States and Russia in building a new space station that will orbit the moon. If everything goes well, it should be operational in the 2020s.

JAXA, however, is also busy trying to launch a moon base with machines that are autonomous or have remote control functionalities. They also won’t need a lot of human intervention and supervision.

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The project has been going on for three years now and involves four more unlikely partners. One of these is Kajima Corporation, a construction company.

The rest are schools, namely, Kyoto University, the University of Electro-Communications, and Shibaura Institute of Technology.

The current plan comprised of four steps. The first phase involves the preparation of the site for modules suitable for human living.

The second step is to excavate the sites up to the required depth. Once this is completed, the project enters into the third phase, which is module installation.

The last objective is to develop a shield for the lunar base using regolith or moon dust. It will protect the modules and humans from the effects of radiation and meteoroids.

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