A Japanese spacecraft has probably crashed during its attempt to land on the Moon, dashing hopes for the mission which had hoped to be the first successful commercial lunar landing
But the ispace team lost contact with the craft when it was around 90 metres above the lunar surface, and were unable to re-establish communication after the landing as planned. “We have to assume that we could not complete the landing,” said ispace chief executive Takeshi Hakamada in a public announcement.“high probability” M1 had made a crash landing on the Moon
. The company says its engineers are still investigating exactly what happened. The 2.3 metre-tall lander was in an upright position during its final approach but was running low on fuel. Data also show that the spacecraft picked up speed as it descended towards the lunar surface.Simeon Barber, a lunar scientist at The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, says that the failed landing demonstrates how challenging it is to accomplish a lunar landing.
The lander was carrying the United Arab Emirates’s 50-centimetre-long Rashid rover, which was developed by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai. The rover’s aim was to study particles in the lunar soil and investigate the geological properties of the Moon’s surface with its cameras and probe. Also on board was a two-wheeled robot developed by the Japanese space agency, JAXA, and a multi-camera system built by Canadensys Aerospace, a space-systems company based in Toronto, Canada.
“We believe that we have fully accomplished the significance of this mission, having acquired a great deal of data and experience by being able to execute the landing phase,” said Hakamada. “What is important is to feed this knowledge and learning back to Mission 2 and beyond.”
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