Space – SpaceX to launch Dogecoin’s paid lunar mission

SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk will launch a fully propelled satellite to the moon next year with the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, the Canadian company Geometric Energy Corporation, which will lead the lunar mission, announced Sunday.

The Calgary-based company said in a statement Sunday that the satellite, called DOGE-1, will be launched on board the SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket in the first quarter of 2022. It added that the satellite, cubic in shape and weighing 40 kilograms, will aim to obtain “Information about lunar space using onboard sensors and cameras.”

Geometric Energy Corporation said the “DOGE-1 mission to the moon” would be “the first commercial lunar payload in history to be fully paid for with Dogecoin,” without specifying the amount of the deal.

“Forward to the moon!”

“We’re excited to launch DOGE-1 on the surface of the Moon!” Said Tom Oceanero, Vice President of Commercial Sales for SpaceX! “The mission will clarify the application of cryptocurrencies beyond Earth’s orbit and lay the foundation for interplanetary trade.”

The announcement comes on the heels of Elon Musk’s stint on satirical American comedy show SNL (Saturday Night Live) in which the head of Tesla and SpaceX praised Dogecoin, which was originally created as a joke, and which helped legitimize it in his tweets. .

A big believer in cryptocurrencies, Elon Musk on Saturday night described in a Dogecoin diagram as an “unstoppable financial instrument that will conquer the world” zealously adding “to the moon!”

France Press agency

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