Name: 月のミニローバーエンジニア (The Moon Mini-Rover Engineer)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:54:31.000Z
Duration: 14 min 52 s
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The surface is covered in the finest particles of sand.

for even the most advanced machines to navigate.

And before fleets of these things start roaming

the real moon, this engineer has many late nights ahead.

will get us one step closer to establishing

the first human settlement away from Earth.

One day when you and I make it up to the moon,

But with the growing commercialization of space

And today I'm back in my hometown to visit one of them.

iSpace got its start in 2010 as a group of engineers

competing for the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE.

The competition expired last year without a winner.

from Japan's government-backed funds and companies

including Japan Airlines, iSpace is now focused

Next to these two hulking creations from previous decades,

iSpace's machine is so small it looks like a toy.

Akane's team is racing against their deadline

of 2021 when a SpaceX rocket will blast iSpace's lander

carrying two rovers into orbit around the moon.

After a soft landing, each rover will roll out

and roam the lunar landscape, sending images, video,

for the structural elements of the Rover.

And that involves everything from choosing

the best physical materials to make a lightweight

but still resilient machine to the thorny challenge

the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA.

Here on Earth this is the closest thing to the moon.

We have an hour, hour and a half of real testing

this morning with both Rover A and Rover B

Make sure that we're logging and backing up all the data.

And after a few final preparations they started the tests.

With every run, Akane's team reconfigured the rover

And then it was the hardest part of the day,

And with a chance to play a very tiny role

For about two days a week, Akane works from home.

And it's this flexibility that's helped her

balance a job as daunting as building a space rover--

With another equally demanding responsibility.

of the developed world's worst records on gender inequality,

and even for her a pretty recent development.

Akane has a Master's in Mechanical Engineering

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月のミニローバーエンジニア (The Moon Mini-Rover Engineer)

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