(MENAFN- AzerNews) Georgia is set to join a mission to the moon through a
collaborative effort between Touch, the Tbilisi-based platform
connecting digital professionals, startups, business and investors,
and the United Kingdom-based Spacebit robotics technology company
for lunar and planetary missions, Azernews reports, citing Agenda.
The announcement from Touch came on Tuesday as part of
the Touch Summit23, the largest tech conference in the South
Caucasus, scheduled to run between December 7-8. The event will
enable delegates to participate in lunar exploration thanks to the
platform's cooperation with the British company.
The Summit programme will involve over 50 speakers
including Spacebit founder and CEO Pavlo Tanasyuk, as well as more
than 60 sessions, workshops, a startup challenge, an exposition,
mentoring sessions and entertainment events.
Tanasyuk is expected to share insights into the
historic mission, set to launch on December 24, marking the first
lunar expedition since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic
1969 landing in the Apollo 11 programme.
The mission, conducted in cooperation with NASA, will
see Georgia join forces with Ukraine and Great Britain to send a
rover robot to the moon. Named Asagumo - meaning morning cloud in
Japanese - the rover moves on legs instead of wheels. If
successful, it will spend eight days on the lunar surface,
meticulously studying and exploring its terrain, the platform
said.
Touch Summit23 delegates will have an opportunity to
send digital letters to the moon, facilitated through a dedicated
webside created for the purpose. The messages by individuals from
countries including Georgia will be deposited on the lunar soil by
Asagumo.
The delegates will also have the opportunity of
witnessing live footage of the spacecraft's launch from the Earth's
surface through a closed link.
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