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Yomiuri Shimbun file photo A KDDI building in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo
Jiji Press
13:39 JST, May 31, 2024
Tokyo, May 30 (Jiji Press) — Major Japanese telecommunications carrier KDDI Corp. said Thursday that it has launched an open innovation program designed to create space-related businesses through collaboration between startups and major companies.
The Mugenlabo Universe program will provide experimental environments, including a digital space that replicates outer space conditions, to help partner companies develop new technologies and launch space businesses.
Under the program, Spacedata Inc., a Tokyo-based space development research company, and others will collaborate. They will first work to start a test in fiscal 2025 of robot operation in a digital space that reproduces the temperature and gravity of the lunar surface. A food cultivation test using an unmanned small satellite in a space environment is planned to start in fiscal 2027.
KDDI also said it will aim to establish a communications network between the moon and Earth as early as 2028 and to develop a communication environment on the moon by around 2030.
