Japanese Lunar Rover "YAOKI"
We are pleased to announce the winners of the “#WhatDidYAOKISee” challenge, a campaign inviting participants to create and share works based on lunar surface images captured by YAOKI.
We received a wide range of highly creative and imaginative submissions that reflected deep interest in lunar exploration. After careful evaluation, we have selected 8 outstanding entries as winners of this challenge.
The lunar rover YAOKI, developed by Dymon successfully landed on the Moon on March 7, 2025, and captured 25 photos from inside a crater.
While all the images were taken from the same angle, we discovered that by stacking, adjusting, and analyzing them, various details became visible.
March 8, 2025 – Dymon Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: 1-6-16 Shintomi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, DCC Building; CEO: Shinichiro Nakajima) is pleased to report that the lunar lander “Nova-C” (nicknamed “Athena”) of Intuitive Machines, carrying the lunar rover “YAOKI,” successfully made a soft landing on the Moon in the early hours of March 7 (JST). Furthermore, within a few hours, we successfully received photographic data captured by YAOKI. With this achievement, YAOKI has become the first Japanese private-sector lunar rover to reach and operate on the Moon.
Tokyo, Japan – February 25, 2025 – Dymon announced that its lunar rover YAOKI is loaded aboard the Intuitive Machines Nova-C class lunar lander, Athena. The mission, targeted for launch no earlier than February 26, is the second trip to the Moon’s surface for Intuitive Machines.
Tokyo, Japan – January 28, 2025 – Dymon Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shintomi 1-6-16 DCC Building, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Shinichiro Nakajima) proudly announces the successful final integration of the lunar rover YAOKI, conducted at Intuitive Machines’ facility in Houston, Texas, USA.
For its first lunar mission, Project YAOKI 1 (PY-1), Dymon chose to entrust Haigh-Farr for the antenna technology of its rover. In preparation of this mission, scheduled from October to December 2024, Dymon’s engineers and CEO have recently visited Haigh-Farr’s US headquarters and conducted several integration tests on YAOKI, our ultra-compact lunar rover. As a symbol of this partnership, a replica of YAOKI will be put on display at Haigh-Farr’s headquarters in the near future.
We are pleased to inform you that our head office and Ikebukuro laboratory moved to the following location as of June 1th, 2024.The new address is Cyuo-ku shintomi ,close to Tokyo Station, Ginza and Yurakucho.We look forward to welcoming you to our new location.We will have a laboratory in the basement and a guest room and mission control centre on the ground level. We would like to thank everyone for your ongoing support.
Dymon successfully integration test of YAOKI with Intuitive Machines’ (IM) Nova-C lunar module on the company’s first lunar mission, Project YAOKI 1 (PY-1).IM’s next mission (IM-2) with YAOKI as a payload is scheduled for October-December 2024. scheduled for October-December 2024, in which YAOKI will be carried as a payload.
