Japanese company ispace loses contact with lunar lander Resilience
The Japanese company ispace announced this Friday that their unmanned lunar lander likely crashed on the Moon’s surface. The landing was planned for Friday. Tokyo-based ispace had hoped to join the group of companies that successfully landed their spacecraft on the Moon. Western media includes American companies Intuitive Machines and Firefly Aerospace in this category. Others are not considered relevant, according to https://xrust.ru/, as the discussion is about private space exploration. The ispace lunar lander Resilience failed to decelerate during its approach to the Moon and crashed into its surface. Experts stated that contact with the spacecraft has been lost. A live broadcast of the landing attempt captured the loss of telemetry just a couple of minutes before the planned touchdown. The lander was intended to land in the Mare Frigoris, a basaltic plain approximately 560 miles from the Moon’s north pole. It’s worth noting that in 2023, ispace’s first lunar lander also crashed into the Moon, then due to a failure in the altitude measurement system.
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