{"id":2509,"date":"2026-07-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T06:21:21","slug":"sx-common-facilities-support-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/en\/2026\/07\/10\/sx-common-facilities-support-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"JPY 3.18 billion support ceiling for lunar resource development, including additional shared infrastructure funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 10 July 2026, the lunar space-resource development hub led by Hirdy Miyamoto received notification of additional support for shared research infrastructure under JAXA\u2019s Space Strategic Fund. The support covers low-gravity environments and shared demonstration infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The maximum support amount for the entire hub is JPY 3.18 billion, including the additional shared infrastructure funding.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The programme will develop facilities for testing in lunar-like low-gravity environments and shared demonstration infrastructure for universities and companies. Led by the University of Tokyo, it connects resource exploration, collection, extraction, storage and use with industry collaboration and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The additional support was conditionally approved. The amount is a ceiling across the full project period, not a guarantee of full disbursement, and may change following stage-gate reviews or plan adjustments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fund.jaxa.jp\/content\/uploads\/kekka_rfp.pdf\">JAXA: projects selected for additional shared infrastructure support (Japanese) \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/topics\/tp2025-06-05-001\">University of Tokyo: overview of the lunar resource development hub (Japanese) \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 10 July 2026, the lunar space-resource development hub led by Hirdy Miyamoto received notification of additional support for shared research infrastructure under JAXA\u2019s Space Strategic Fund. The support covers low-gravity environments and shared demonstration infrastructure. The maximum support amount for the entire hub is JPY 3.18 billion, including the additional shared infrastructure funding. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/?p=2480","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lab-news","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}