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Today a Japanese company, ispace, will attempt to become the first private company to land on the Moon.
Carrying a United Arab Emirates lunar rover as well as a TOMY-JAXA SORA-Q transformable robot, the landing will be livestreamed in a bit over 2½ hours from now, 12:40 Atlantic (15:40 UTC).
HAKUTO-R Mission 1 – the first privately-led Japanese mission (by ispace Inc) is scheduled to land on the moon on Tuesday. The landing sequence will begin at ~15:40 UTC (10:40 EDT) on Tue, April 25, 2023.
The orbiter is currently in a 100 km circular orbit.
After landing, the lander will deploy the Rashid rover developed by the Emirates Lunar Mission.
Webcast starts at 11:00 a.m. EDT at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpR1UUnix3g
Here is another beautiful perfectly-timed image taken recently by the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 spacecraft from its 100 km circular orbit.
We can see the moon's shadow on earth in this image taken during the solar eclipse last week.
Lander and rover will touchdown on the moon in less than 24 hours! https://twitter.com/ispace_inc/status/1650506233575604227 #HAKUTO#ispace#ESA#UAE
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This is animation of HAKUTO-R's journey to the moon and what will happen tomorrow morning starting at 10:40 EDT, as the spacecraft attempts to land on the lunar surface inside Atlas crater.
Note that there is no orbiter as part of this mission.
Looks like the HAKUTO-R landing was unsuccessful ☹️
ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada - “We have not been able to confirm successful landing. We have to assume…that we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface. Our engineers continue to investigate the situation.”
Reminds you of the failed attempt by the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 in 2019, where comm. was lost during the last few seconds of landing. The Israeli Beresheet lander failed as well in 2019.