Like SpaceIL, ispace started working on its lander as part of the Google Lunar X Prize, which offered a cash prize to the first successful moon landing not funded by a government.The lander will carry a small rover for the United Arab Emirates’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, an even smaller two-wheeled robot for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and a camera and flight computer prototype for Canadian companies.The 2-metre-tall craft will weigh about 1000 kilograms when it launches, but most of that mass is propellant that will be burned on the way, and the lander will have a mass of only 340 kilograms by the time it touches down.Once it arrives at the moon, it will spend about two weeks in orbit, with each circle around the moon taking it closer to the surface.While both the Nova-C lander, built by Intuitive Machines, and the Peregrine lander from Astrobotic aren’t scheduled to launch until early next year, they will take more direct routes to the moon and could potentially beat Hakuto-R there."