HAKUTO, the Japanese team competing for the $30M Google
Lunar XPRIZE, has announced new pre-flight models of its two moon exploration
rovers: four wheeled “Moonraker” and two wheeled “Tetris.” The Google Lunar
XPRIZE is an unprecedented competition challenging privately funded teams to
successfully land a spacecraft on the lunar surface that travels at least 500
meters and transmits high-definition video and imagery back to earth. Hakuto
has developed a small and lightweight dual rover system to fulfill the
requirements of the Google Lunar XPRIZE and, for the first time, explore caves
beneath the lunar surface.