The countdown has begun for the January 14, 2023 roll out of the SpaceX Falcon 9 with DOGE-1 and IM-1/NOVA-C lunar missions from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as per information obtained on November 28 from SpaceTV, which will webcast the activity.
As a recap, SpaceX founder and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk revealed the “DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon” in May 2021. Later it was revealed that the launch has been delayed owing to Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 lunar lander controlling the mission’s development. According to data obtained by Coingecko on November 28th, DOGE was trading at $0.1045 at the time of publication, representing a daily gain of 9.5% and a significant weekly gain of 39%.
Musk cryptocurrency podcaster David Gokhshtein informed his 700,000 listeners on November 25 that he expected Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin and the upcoming Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) CEO will quickly start working together to enhance DOGE.
SpaceX launching satellite Doge-1 to the moon next year
– Mission paid for in Doge
– 1st crypto in space
– 1st meme in spaceTo the mooooonnn!!https://t.co/xXfjGZVeUW
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2021
Significantly, as reported by Finbold in September 2021, Buterin stated at the time that DOGE programmers should explore converting to the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) algorithm, noting that the Ethereum code may be leveraged to facilitate this transfer.
As demand in the decentralized finance (DeFi) token grows, the roll out of the DOGE-1 lunar spacecraft and integration of the token as a payment mechanism on Twitter might cause Dogecoin to soar to all-time peaks, possibly surpassing its all-time peak from May 2021.