Spacebit

Spacebit https://spacebit.com/ founded in 2014 London based.

Spacebit open the world's first space communications gateway

Developing the capability to support commercial space exploration and Deep Space communication for institutions and private enterprise. Working with the UK's Goonhilly Space tracking and communications centre. To become the world's first commercial deep space network service.

Asagumo Lunar rover

The United Kingdom is set to make its own giant leap soon, with a very small rover.

four-legged robot built by London-based Spacebit

The first trip to the moon's surface by a UK-built craft; and the first time a legged robot has explored another world.

Spacebit Mission One: UK's 1st Moon Rover to Launch in 2021

A 2.2-lb. (1 kilogram), four-legged robot built by London-based Spacebit will launch aboard Astrobotic's Peregrine moon lander in July of 2021.

Spacebit tested its Asagumo rover in the Komokado Kazaana cave in Japan, where it explored lava tubes which are similar to those on the Moon surface.

What's the story behind the unusual name of the Asagumo rover?

"Asa no kumo ha fuku ga kuru" (Japanese: 朝の蜘蛛は福が来る、夜の蜘蛛は盗人が来る) - it is an old Japanese proverb saying that a morning spider brings luck.

Junichi Haruyama, a senior researcher at JAXA discovered the lunar lava tubes.

Spacebit's walking rover won't be flying alone on the July 2021 mission; it's one of about 30 payloads that Peregrine will carry to the lunar surface. Fourteen of those payloads are from NASA, which granted Astrobotic a $79.5 million award for the mission in May 2019 via the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, or CLPS.