page_title: Spacebit Mission One
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Spacebit Mission One / Overview
caption_attribution_description: English: Lacus Mortis with crater Bürg (detail of LRO - WAC global moon mosaic; Mercator projection)
context_page_description: Spacebit Mission One is a planned first robotic UK's lunar mission designed by the privately held company Spacebit in collaboration with Yuzhnoye Design Buro to deliver the Asagumo lunar rover to the surface of the Moon. The launch is scheduled for July 2021
  Spacebit Mission One would demonstrate a new lunar exploration technology related to lunar lava tube's for sustainable lunar exploration.
context_section_description: By February 2019, Astrobotic's first lunar lander mission, simply called Mission One, had 14 commercial payloads including small rovers from Hakuto, Team AngelicvM, and a larger rover from the Carnegie Mellon University named Andy that has a mass of 33 kg and is 103 cm tall. An unusual miniature rover (1.3 kg) called Asagumo is included, and it moves on four legs. It is a technological demonstrator and will travel a distance of at least 10 m (33 ft).
  In September 2019, Spacebit signed an agreement to deliver the first UK's lunar rover Asagumo on upcoming mission in 2021 and named this "Spacebit Mission One".
  On November 18, 2019, Spacebit and Ukraine's Yuzhnoye Design Buro have unveiled a new Lunar Lander-Hopper prototype at the Dubai Airshow, while also announcing the UAE as the official testing location for a Spider Moon Rover—"the smallest robotic Moon rover in the world with legs." 
  The lander will be developed over the next two to three years with engine testing starting earlier, according to Spacebit, while the Spider Moon Rover is in development and is due to be launched formally in Q2 2020. The precise testing location in Abu Dhabi has yet to be identified.
  "Our Lunar Lander is different as it incorporates the ability to 'hop' from one landing site to another," said  Spacebit CEO Pavlo Tanasyuk. It will be designed to deliver "150 kg or more of payload" to one landing point or "50 kg or more" to up to three remote landing points on the lunar surface within a distance of up to 20 km, said Spacebit.
  The pint-sized robotic lander, weighing just 1.3kg, will hitch a ride aboard a NASA-funded mission to the cratered lunar surface. Equipped with four legs rather than wheels or tracks, the rover will be able to explore parts of the Moon other landers cannot reach.
  The plan is to land their Astrobotic's Peregrine lander next to a pit located in the Lacus Mortis plain, then circumnavigate the pit with a rover, while a micro-rover called Asagumo (developed by Spacebit) enters the pit, that is thought to offer access to the lava tubes suspected to exist below the surface.
caption: Image of Lacus Mortis featuring rilles (narrow depressions collectively called Rimae Bürg) thought to indicate lava tubes beneath the surface, which may be explored by the Asagumo Moon rover during Spacebit Mission One.[11]
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