Announced HAKUTO-R partner company for private-sector lunar exploration
February 22, 2019, Tokyo, Japan - Japan's Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance executive Isao Nojo announces Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance makes a corporate partnership with Japan's space venture "ispace" 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)