Announced HAKUTO-R partner company for private-sector lunar exploration
February 22, 2019, Tokyo, Japan - Japanese space venture "ispace" CEO Takeshi Hakamada (R) and COO Takahiro Nakamura (L) shake their hands with Japan Airlines executive Takahiro Shimojo (C) as the companies make a corporate partnership to support "Hakuto-R" lunar exploration mission in Tokyo on Friday, February 22, 2019. "ispace" is expecting to send a rover to the moon in 2021 and conduct the world's fisrt test of NGK's solid state battery on the moon. (Photo by Yoshio Tsunoda/AFLO)