{"id":35021,"date":"2017-03-03T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/space-mining-luxembourg-and-lunar-robotic-company-ispace-shoot-for-the-moon"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:39","slug":"space-mining-luxembourg-and-lunar-robotic-company-ispace-shoot-for-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/space-mining-luxembourg-and-lunar-robotic-company-ispace-shoot-for-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Space Mining: Luxembourg and lunar robotic company ispace shoot for the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5cMEJTnPq-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(sth\/T.L.) \u2013 Luxembourg\u2019s government and Tokyo-based space lunar robotic exploration company <a href=\"http:\/\/ispace-inc.com\/\">ispace Inc.<\/a> on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the context of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceresources.public.lu\/en\/index.html\">SpaceResources.lu<\/a> initiative with focus on developing miniaturized technology to discover, map, and utilize resources on the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese start-up ispace was created by Hakuto, a finalist team of Google\u2019s prestigious innovation competition <a href=\"http:\/\/lunar.xprize.org\/teams\/hakuto\">Google Lunar XPRIZE<\/a>. The company already works together with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.list.lu\/\">Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)<\/a> and will continue to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Within the framework of this MoU, ispace intends to focus, through its new European office based in Luxembourg, on business development, R&amp;D and on several key technical services, including payload development, engineering and integration.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wort.lu\/en\/business\/space-mining-luxembourg-and-lunar-robotic-company-ispace-shoot-for-the-moon-58b850e3a5e74263e13ab64d\">http:\/\/www.wort.lu\/en\/business\/space-mining-luxembourg-and-l...63e13ab64d<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(sth\/T.L.) \u2013 Luxembourg\u2019s government and Tokyo-based space lunar robotic exploration company ispace Inc. on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the context of the SpaceResources.lu initiative with focus on developing miniaturized technology to discover, map, and utilize resources on the Moon. Japanese start-up ispace was created by Hakuto, a finalist team of Google\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,38,1490,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-engineering","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58519,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35021\/revisions\/58519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}