HAKUTO definition

HAKUTO which means "White Rabbit" in Japanese, was the name of the ispace-managed team for the Google Lunar X-Prize (GLXP). The GLXP offered $20 million to the first private group to place a lander on the moon and to perform some tasks on the lunar surface. The contest concluded in 2018 with no winner, but several of the competing companies have continued to work on their designs.
HAKUTO means "white rabbit" in Japanese. Based on legendary folklore in Japan, it is said that a white rabbit lives on the Moon. This was the inspiration for the name of Team HAKUTO, one of the 5 finalists in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition—a race to accomplish the first private lunar exploration. Managed by ispace, supported by sponsors and a large passionate crew of volunteers, HAKUTO competed in the race for the greater part of the past decade. Ultimately, there was no winner in the competition. However, six months after the competition ended, ispace brought back the "HAKUTO" name as the Program Name for its first two lunar missions. Thus, the "R" stands for "Reboot" in the spirit of

Examples of HAKUTO in a sentence

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