On May 23, according to South Korean media reports, South Korea's first lunar probe was named "tanuri" (transliteration) through a public name campaign. The name comes from the combination of "Moon" and "enjoy" in Korean. It is scheduled to launch Falcon 9 of Musk's SpaceX company on August 2 local time**
• it is reported that the successfully named "tanuri" comes from the combination of "Moon" and "enjoy" in Korean, which contains the expectation and Prospect of the Korean people for the lunar exploration mission. This exploration mission will be the first lunar exploration mission in South Korea, which will be sent into space by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. The probe will take about three months to reach its destination and locate in orbit.
• tanuri weighs about 678 kg and will carry some useful instruments, including shadowcam, an instrument of NASA, which will map the permanent shadow area of the moon to find minerals that can be harvested to support future missions. It was developed by researchers at Arizona State University and Marin space science systems as U.S. support for the Korean mission.
