SpaceX’s “DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon” will show up in the principal quarter of 2022, with the image roused digital money filling in as full instalment for the lunar payload. The mission was announced on Sunday by Geometric Energy Corporation, which was reported by SpaceX’s communications staff in an email to reporters. The cost of the mission was not revealed. DOGE-1 is a 40-kilogramme cube satellite that will be launched as a payload on a Falcon 9 rocket, according to Geometric Energy Corporation. The payload “will get lunar-spatial information from sensors and cameras, vigorous about fused correspondences and computational structures.”
DOGE-1 will show the application of cryptocurrency beyond Earth orbit and lay the groundwork for interplanetary commerce, according to SpaceX vice president of commercial sales Tom Ochinero in a release. “We’re really looking forward to sending DOGE-1 to the Moon!”, says the team. According to Ochinero. Musk had already revealed the company’s plans, albeit in an April Fool’s Day tweet.
Musk said, “SpaceX will put a literal Dogecoin on the literal moon.” Following Musk’s debut as host of “Saturday Night Live,” the DOGE-1 mission was launched. Despite his references to the cryptocurrency, the price of dogecoin dropped below 50 cents throughout his appearance. The news comes on the heels of SpaceX breaking a new record for its Falcon 9 rockets. SpaceX landed the Falcon 9 rocket’s booster for the tenth time after launching another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit, a milestone Musk has previously identified as critical in the company’s progress toward rocket reuse.
In May 2018, Musk told reporters, “It’s planned to do ten or more flights with no refurbishment between each flight.” “The [Falcon 9] boosters are capable of at least 100 flights before being retired, according to our calculations. More than that is possible.” The mission’s financial value was not disclosed in the statement released by Geometric Energy Corporation earlier on Sunday. In a statement released by Geomet, SpaceX Vice President of Commercial Sales, Tom Ochinero was quoted as saying, “This project would demonstrate the application of cryptocurrency beyond Earth orbit and lay the groundwork for interplanetary commerce.”
Dogecoin is currently the fourth-largest digital currency, with a market capitalization of $73 billion, according to crypto data tracker CoinGecko.com. It has increased by more than 800% in the last month. It topped $0.73 for the first time on Thursday. Tesla Inc, whose CEO is Elon Musk, declared in February that it had bought $1.5 billion in bitcoin and will before long accept it as a type of instalment for its electric vehicles, denoting a critical advance toward standard appropriation and sending bitcoin to another high of almost $62,000.