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MOON SURFACE MOBILITY IN THE DECADES TO COME (MVA/JAXA), Dec 14, 2022, virtual, 8:00-9:30 am ET
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The Moon Village Association (MVA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will hold a webinar on December 14, 2022 at 14:00-15:30 Central European Time (8:00-9:30 am Eastern Standard Time) on “Moon Surface Mobility in the Decades to Come.”
It is the third in MVA’s series “Non-Space Business Goes to the Moon.”
More information and registration instructions are on the event’s website, which says:
One of the top priorities for MVA in the context of the Moon Market creation is engagement of the
non-space companies. The webinar is third in the series of ‘Non-Space Business Goes To The Moon’.
JAXA is currently very actively working on the Pressurized Rover, which will be used for moon
exploration and utilization in near future. For this study, JAXA is co-working with the Japanese
automobile industries and space industries to gather all the technologies, ideas, and heritage from the
past to realize the world first-ever pressurized rover on the moon.In this webinar, we will be joined by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Toyota, Lockheed Martin,
MDA and Lunar Outpost. The combination of experts from both space and non-space industries will
introduce the opportunity the sector brings in the coming decades.Moderators:
- Oleh Ventskovsky (MVA)
- Naoki Sato (JAXA)
Speakers:
- Hiroaki Kodama (MHI)
- Yamaguchi, Junichi (Toyota)
- Derek M Hodgins (Lockheed Martin)
- Laurie Chappel (MDA)
- Justin Cyrus (Lunar Outpost)
Agenda:
- Opening remarks (MVA)
- Introduction (JAXA)
- Topic 1 – Designing smart lunar vehicle
- Round table discussion
- Topic 2 – Infrastructures to support lunar mobility
- Round table discussion
- Final wrap-up (JAXA)
- Closing remarks (MVA)