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Japan's first large lunar explorer was launched by the H-IIA rocket on September 14, 2007 and had been in observation operation from December 21, 2007 to June 11, 2009(JST). This explorer named "KAGUYA (SELENE: SELenological and Engineering Explorer)" has been keenly anticipated by many countries as it represents the largest lunar exploration project of the post-Apollo program. The lunar missions that have been conducted so far have gathered a large amount of information on the Moon, but the mystery surrounding its origin and evolution remains unsolved. KAGUYA investigate the entire moon in order to obtain information on its elemental and mineralogical distribution, its geography, its surface and subsurface structure, the remnants of its magnetic field and its gravity field using the scientific observation instruments. The results are expected to lead to a better overall understanding of the Moon's origin and evolution. Further, the environment around the Moon including plasma, the electromagnetic field and high-energy particles will also be observed. The data obtained in this way is of great scientific value and is also important information in the possibility of utilizing the Moon in the future. This paper describes the highlight of KAGUYA development and operation with some newly developed engineering achievements including a separation mechanism of sub-satellites from main orbiter as well as the latest scientific accomplishment of KAGUYA.

Robotics is a very large field which requires various disciplines such as mechanics, mathematics, electronics, physics and information technology. Robotics education is, therefore, becoming more and more important in engineering education at college. From the point of view of craftsmanship, an education using robots can give students more experimental results than by normal lectures. It is also expected that a robot education will be able to give them a strong impression.In this research, we propose the new lecture system called "Introduction of Robot project" and "Basic of Robot project". These classes are aiming active learning lecture. Therefore, this class uses group working, debate, and presentation, positively. And, one of the big points is that this class held for a few department students which are belonged in department of mechanical and electrical engineering, media technology and aerospace engineering, respectively. In this paper, we present the aim of this lecture system and introduce the contents of lecture.