The rover was operated using Yamcs, an open-source mission control software platform, configured and controlled by the JAOPS team. Although Yaoki was originally designed and tested to be deployed from ...

TOKYO, JP / ACCESS Newswire / February 25, 2025 / Dymon announced that the YAOKI rover is loaded aboard the Intuitive Machines Nova-C class lunar lander, Athena and is ready to be operated by JAOPS ...

Like a scene from a science fiction drama, elementary school students produced screws at specialized super-precision parts maker Katsuragawa Seira Co. in Tokyo's Ota Ward. But these were no ordinary ...

Space startup Dymon co. said the firm’s lunar rover will be flown to the moon this year aboard the lander of a U.S. space exploration company. The Tokyo-based company said the Yaoki rover will be ...

In recent years, a number of Japanese start-ups have entered the lunar development market. Dymon Co. has developed Yaoki, an ultracompact robot that can fit in the palm of a person’s hand. Yaoki will ...

MVA Member JAOPS has successfully operated Dymon's rover, Yaoki, in the first privately-funded exploration of a crater in the Moon's South Pole region. JAOPS developed and tested Yaoki's ground ...

Lunar probe Yaoki, developed by a Japanese venture company, was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 26 and arrived on moon on March 7. But the lunar lander carrying the probe ...

The lunar rover YAOKI, made from aerospace materials provided by the Mitsubishi Chemical Group (“MCG Group”) reached the moon before dawn on March 7, 2025, Japan time, and succeeded in capturing ...