frank lipsky wrote at 12/19/2017 5:49:24 AM: billboards on the moon? Japanese company iSpace Technologies has raised $90m in a series A funding round led by Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings and Japan Airlines . The start-up will use the cash to fund two missions, two in 2019 to put a craft in lunar orbit and a first in 2020 to land the same ship on the moon . iSpace is developing 3D printed robots which will collect samples from the satellite ahead of eventual human colonisation, and will also offer a "projection mapping service" enabling advertising on the lunar surface.
Japanese company iSpace Technologies has raised $90m in a series A funding round led by Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings and Japan Airlines . The start-up will use the cash to fund two missions, two in 2019 to put a craft in lunar orbit and a first in 2020 to land the same ship on the moon . iSpace is developing 3D printed robots which will collect samples from the satellite ahead of eventual human colonisation, and will also offer a "projection mapping service" enabling advertising on the lunar surface.