Flight controllers on the ground made the announcement 20 minutes after the planned landing time at 16:40 GMT on Tuesday, April 26. Find out more at 🚀 engineering interestingengineering
The first attempt by the Japanese startup ispace inc to soft-land a rover on the lunar surface appears to have failed, indicating that thehad most likely crashed on the Moon's surface, after attempting a fast landing with the UAE's Rashid rover.
Flight controllers on the ground made the announcement 20 minutes after the scheduled landing time at 16:40 GMT on Tuesday, April 26. The communication outage prompted the startup to declare that the spacecraft had failed to land.The Hakuto-R Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, confirmed that communication with Hakuto-R was lost just moments before the tense landing sequence. The lander could be seen descending towards the lunar surface for the touchdown in the live animation.
The mission control center has been investigating the matter using telemetry data collected until the landing sequence to determine what caused the communication failure prior to the final landing moments.Despite the unfortunate ending, the private company stated that the lander accomplished eight out of ten mission objectives and provided valuable data that could aid in the next landing attempt, which is expected to take place in 2024.
ispace will continue to make the most of the data and know-how acquired during the operation through Success 8, and landing sequence, including aspects of Success 9, aiming to dramatically improve the technological maturity of Mission 2 in 2024 and Mission 3 in 2025.
. It was orbiting the moon, about 62 miles above the surface, in preparation for the final landing. During its journey through the lunar orbit, the spacecraft also captured a stunning image of Earth peeking out from behind the moon.Seen here is the lunar Earthrise during solar eclipse, captured by the lander-mounted camera at an altitude of about 100 km from the lunar surface.
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