A Japanese startup, ispace, that had hoped to become the first commercial company to land successfully on the moon lost contact with their spacecraft on Tuesday
A Japanese start-up that had hoped to become the first commercial company to land successfully on the moon lost contact with its spacecraft Tuesday, the company said, after a tense period in which it tried to reestablish communications with the lander.The uncrewed Hakuto-R lander, manufactured by ispace, a company based in Tokyo, had descended from lunar orbit and was nearing the moon’s surface when controllers on the ground lost contact with it about 12:40 p.m. Eastern.
The attempt was the latest in a series of failed robotic lunar-landing missions. In 2019, a privately funded Israeli spacecraft crash-landed on the moon, and later that year, an Indian spacecraft carrying a rover also failed in its attempt to land softly. The Hakuto-R mission grew out of the Google Lunar X Prize, a failed attempt to encourage private-sector efforts to send spacecraft to the moon. After the contest was disbanded without a winner, however, ispace kept its program going.
In the coming years, NASA is planning to build a sustainable presence on and around the moon, eventually sending astronauts to the lunar south pole to search for water in the form of ice in permanently shadowed craters there. It also intends to assemble a small space station in orbit around the moon, known as Gateway.
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