YAOKI
Tiny, tough Moon rover that is cheap to ship
Dymon
Japanese startup that builds YAOKI, a palm-sized lunar rover meant to make private Moon exploration cheap. Its first rover reached the Moon on Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lander in 2025 but could not drive off after the lander tipped over. (1 product in the atlas)
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The Moon · 384,400 km from Earth
Testing
Milestones
- Mar 2025 YAOKI reached the Moon's south polar region aboard Intuitive Machines' Athena lander (IM-2, Project YAOKI-1). The lander tipped over and lost power, so YAOKI could not leave its deployer, but it ran for over two hours and sent images from inside it. Company statement1
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