Private space The company from Japan probably wouldn’t stick with it Moon landing On Thursday, it makes this Second attempt to fail It has reached the company’s moon in the past two years.
This mission is called Hakuto-r by the company isspaceI was about to land on June 5th at about 3:15pm. A long, 4.5 months of winding journey Saves fuel. However, the team lost communication with Lander. This is a foreseeable indication that something probably didn’t work out.
isspace Invite the public to see In addition to mission control based in Tokyo, it was early morning hours on June 6th. The landing sequence lasted for about an hour as a robotic spacecraft. Resilience I performed a braking engine burn and adjusted the lander orientation and speed according to automatic commands.
The livestream showed a stoic crowd of engineers stacked up in the mission control room, staring violently at the console for updates on the situation on the spacecraft.
“The telemetry numbers haven’t come,” one of the broadcast commentators said through an English interpreter.
After a few minutes the broadcast ended with an Ispace spokesperson.
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The Mission Controller is waiting for a confirmation of the Resilience Lander during the live stream of the moon landing on June 5th, 2025.
Credit: iSpace Screenshot
The Resilience Lander was to deliver a small European rover. tenaciouson the surface. The robot is smaller than the large wheels of a toddler and is armed with a scoop to collect soil. If everything went down as planned, it could have been the first European spacecraft to drive the moon.
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Lander also carried miniature replicas of a traditional Swedish home. Called Red Doll House Moon Housewould have been placed on the surface for purposes other than art.
Resilience targeted a northern location, a relatively simple site than the dark, heavily cratered Antarctica that many other spacecraft countries and businesses would like to go to. The area is known as Male FrigorisThe other name “Cold Sea” spreads out to a nearby summit.
ISPACE engineers will transport Lander to Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2024, prior to launch into space.
Credit: iSpace
Arrived on the moon It’s still troublesome – Proven by numerous flop rackings. But Firefly Aerospace was successful When it landed in March, another US company, intuitive machinery, did not carry it as well, and in the end On that side It was in a crater less than a week.
Difficulty arises from the moon exosphereit does not provide practically no drag to slow the spacecraft as it approaches the ground. Furthermore, there is no GPS system on the moon that will help guide the ship to its landing site. Engineers need to compensate for these challenges 239,000 miles.
Ispace’s first Hakuto-R Lander fell crash in April 2023. This is because we ran out of fuel during the descent and couldn’t control the landing. It was unclear whether Lander faced the same fate shortly after Thursday’s second attempt.
The mission is just one of many other commercial missions expected to attempt this feat. NASA‘s Commercial Month Payload Services Program. The program was established in 2018 to recruit the private sector to deliver cargo to the moon. Ispace was not an American company and was unable to participate in the NASA program directly, but is working with it on one of the contracts led by Massachusetts’ Draper Technologies, which is expected to land in the month of 2025.
These upcoming missions will surface support the US Space Agency’s lunar ambitions, shipping supplies and experiments before astronauts arrive in 2027 and beyond. They are supposed to kickstart again The future of the Cislunar economyRecognition of market opportunities for business ventures within the month and surrounding areas.
“We never have to stop exploring the moon,” the commentator’s interpreter said.
