FEATURE: Japanese firms aim for one giant leap in space development

Major general contractors in Japan are getting behind space development as they eye the Artemis lunar exploration project, which envisions the construction of a permanent base on the Moon for human activity.Japanese companies are scrambling to enhance autonomous technologies they have developed in disaster response and other fields in hopes of using them to help construct a base for operations and scientific research on the Moon. Some of the futuristic concepts stretch the imagination.Artemis, the first lunar exploration project since the U.S. Apollo program, is being led by the United Stat…READ FULL ARTICLE