The lander would have targeted lava tubes and other permanently shadowed areas, which function as cold trap volatiles such as water. Water ice could be processed by future missions to produce spacecraft propellant (LOX/H2).[1]
The lander would have a mass of 1,000 kg, and would be able to deliver up to 340 kg[1] of payload, including the rover. Its mission would last two weeks.[3]
Rover
The rover would have a mass of 100 kg, and it would operate for two weeks.
^ abcdLunar Polar Exploration Mission. Tatsuaki Hashimoto, Takeshi Hoshino, Sachiko Wakabayashi, etal. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). 6 January 2017.
^Mission Concepts of Unprecedented Zipangu Underworld of the Moon Exploration (UZUME) Project. (PDF). Junichi HARUYAMA, Isao KAWANO, Takashi KUBOTA, etal. J-Stage. 3 July 2015. Accessed: 24 September 2018. Quote: "SELENE-2 was a mission with
an intention to send a landing module to the Moon, and a lunar hole was a candidate for the landing site. However, the SELENE-2 mission was officially terminated in March 2015."
^"India's next Moon shot will be bigger, in pact with Japan". The Times of India. 8 September 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2021. For our next mission — Chandrayaan-3 — which will be accomplished in collaboration with JAXA (Japanese Space Agency), we will invite other countries too to participate with their payloads.
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