Team Hakuto was a Japanese team managed by ispace, inc., that competed in the Google Lunar X Prize, which aimed to land a privately funded rover on the Moon. They designed lunar rovers, including Sorato and Moonraker, with the goal of exploring the lunar surface and transmitting high-definition images back to Earth. Although the team didn't win the prize, Hakuto evolved into ispace, which continues to develop lunar landers and rovers for commercial lunar exploration programs like Hakuto-R, partnering with organizations like JAXA and NASA.
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Team Hakuto had planned to fly Sorato on landers developed by Astrobotic and TeamIndus, but neither company launched before the Google Lunar X Prize competition ended in early 2018.
The National Air and Space Museum received SORATO, a lunar rover built by ispace’s Team HAKUTO, on 2019-10-23.
Team HAKUTO spent the better part of a decade building SORATO, with most work carried out by a small volunteer team.