Japanese Space Agency JAXA will use a Lunar Cruiser to get around on the surface of the Moon
Toyota is developing a new purpose-built utility vehicle for those people who wish to live on other celestial bodies like the Moon or Mars.
Key Highlights
- Toyota and JAXA developed an extraterrestrial vehicle
- Lunar Rover will target people staying on Moon
- Toyota will bring the vehicle by 2040
With space agencies like SpaceX and Blue Origin planning to settle the human race on the Moon and Mars, the Japanese automobile maker Toyota is getting into the extraterrestrial business as well. Know for manufacturing one of the most rugged and reliable vehicles in the world the revered Land Cruiser, Toyota has announced that the Lunar Cruiser is aimed at the people who plan to move away from Earth in the future.
What will Toyota Lunar Cruiser offer?
The Lunar Cruiser is derived from the legendary Land Cruiser. The new vehicle will be developed by Toyota and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) called Lunar Cruiser.
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Without revealing many details, Toyota says that the new vehicle will be capable of exploring the surface of the moon and other extraterrestrial surfaces. The new vehicle will run on hydrogen fuel cells and will target the customers who start to live on the moon and plan to go on to Mars.
Toyota has started building a car that you can use on Moon’s surface
Toyota says that people eat, work, sleep and communicate with others safely from their cars. Toyota will apply this concept in outer space as well.
There are steep challenges to developing a vehicle that will work on the surface of the moon. The gravity on the moon is one-sixth of that on Earth and the moon has complex terrain with massive craters, cliffs, and hills. The moon also has harsher weather conditions compared to our planet.
Toyota will use hydrogen fuel cells to keep the vehicle clean
The vehicle will also get a robotic arm and it is already in the development stages. The robotic arm will help the vehicle to explore, inspect and maintain the vehicle without getting out of it. The arm will be a grapple type with different tools and mechanisms.
Are you excited about space exploration and Toyota’s Lunar Cruiser? Toyota is the first manufacturer to announce such a vehicle and we think more manufacturers will join the bandwagon in the future.
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