The Hakuto-R Moon lander built by Japanese company Ispace lost contact while attempting to land on the Moon on April 26, 2023.
According to CNN, The Hakuto-R lunar lander built by Japanese company Ispace lost contact while attempting to land on April 26. The company announced the loss of Hakuto-R.
Model of the lander for Ispace’s HAKUTO-R lunar exploration program.
Model of the lander for Ispace’s HOKUTO-R lunar exploration program.
“We cannot yet confirm a successful landing. We must accept that we cannot complete a landing on the surface of the Moon. Our engineers continue to understand the situation.”announced Bakeshi Hakamada, CEO of Ispace, 20 minutes after the scheduled landing time.
Hakuto-R is scheduled to land on the Moon on April 26 at 1:40 a.m. (Japan time). However, the control team on Earth lost contact with the ship and are still trying to resolve the problem.
The Ispace-built Hakuto-R was launched into space aboard a SpaceX rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA) on December 11. 2022. Hakuto-R then makes a 3-month journey to enter the orbit of the Moon, located 383,000 km from Earth. If successful, Hɑkuto-R will mark the world’s first commercial spacecraft landing on the Moon.
Hɑkuto-R brought Rashid, moon rover manufactured by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Abubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Hakamada director added that the company’s team collected data from the spacecraft up to the attempted landing. It’s a “great achievement” will help inform future Ispace missions.
Historically, only three countries have conducted a controlled landing on the Moon: the United States, the Soviet Union and China. The United States remains the only country to have sent a man to the Moon.
Unlike previous lunar missions, Space does not send ships to the Moon on behalf of a country but wants to make it a for-profit business.
The company regularly informed about the Moon mission on its Twitter account and prepared for the risks. “Recognizing the possibility of anomalies during the mission, the results will be weighed and evaluated against the criteria and included in future missions developed by 2025”the company said in a post dated December 11, 2022.
If the mission is successful, the 10 kg Rashid rover will leave the lunar lander and pass “most of the time, I explore the Atlas crater on the northeast side of the Moon”, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), which helped design Rashid’s wheels.
Post source: Thanh Nien
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The Hakuto-R Moon lander built by Japanese company Ispace lost contact while attempting to land on the Moon on April 26, 2023.
