A private spacecraft from Japan failed to land on the moon

On Tuesday, the Japanese Hakuto-R lander failed to make history after landing on the moon.

As reported by Ukrinform, this was reported by Space.com.

Tokyo-based ispace’s Hakuto-R spacecraft is intended to be the first private spacecraft and the first Japanese-built vehicle to make a soft landing on the moon.

However, ispace lost contact with Hakuto-R at the time it was scheduled to land.

“So we have to assume that we won’t be able to complete the descent to the moon’s surface,” said Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace.

He added that the company will continue to contact the lander and determine what happened.

Japan’s ispace reportedly plans to land the Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) spacecraft on the moon at 1:40 PM on Wednesday (4:40 PM GMT on Tuesday) after taking off from Cape Canaveral, Florida in December. . SpaceX rocket.

Photo: ispace drawing

Source: Ukrinform

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