Growing off-world diversity is making space for everyone

With extra teams and organisations exploring house than ever earlier than, we’ll all profit from a various vary of individuals and views in low Earth orbit and past

SLOWLY however absolutely, house is opening as much as folks and teams who couldn’t entry it earlier than. As New Scientist went to press, Japanese agency ispace was set to launch a lunar lander referred to as Hakuto-R, which – if all goes effectively – might be the primary industrial craft to land on the moon (see web page 12). It will carry with it two small rovers, one from the United Arab Emirates and one other from the government-run Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, smashing the US, Soviet Union and Chinese hegemony of earlier lunar landings.

At the identical time, the European Space Agency has introduced its …