Hakuto-R: Japanese company loses contact with its lander before landing on the moon
April 26, 2023
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After a month of preparation of the lander Hakuto-R from Japanese ispace made an attempt to land on lunar soil on Tuesday (25). The ship was supposed to
After a month of preparation of the lander Hakuto-R from Japanese ispace made an attempt to land on lunar soil on Tuesday (25). The ship was supposed to land on the moon at 13:40 Brazil time, but the company lost contact with the model before the descent was completed and now cannot tell if the module arrived safely on earth.
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According to the manufacturer, the module is called M1 descend and land in the crater Atlas, which is located in the northernmost hemisphere of the Earth’s natural satellite and has been in lunar orbit since last month, preparing to reach the earth. As indicated Gizmodolanding proceeded normally and an hour before the scheduled time, the model had already begun its landing sequence and began to slow down.
But a few minutes before landing, Mission Control in Tokyo ispace has lost contact with the spaceshipwhich is predicted to happen quickly. Since then, the company has been unable to restore communication with the module and through it twitter she stated that because of this she “was able to confirm the success of the lander”.
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The company said that since then, its engineers have been working to get the current status of the module and find out if it arrived safely on lunar soil. If it can determine that the model made a safe landing, it will be the first time that a private spacecraft has managed to land safely on the moon.
However, in a live broadcast on YouTube to comment on the mission, the founder ispace, Takeshi Hakamada, said that, unfortunately, the company was unable to land on the surface of the moon. Despite this, he was not discouraged by the failed mission and stated that it was important to obtain flight data for future landings planned by the company.
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lander Hakuto-R was launched to the Moon on December 11, 2022 from the Space Force Station at Cape Canaveral in Florida on a rocket. Falcon 9 from SpaceX. The module entered lunar orbit on March 21, 2023 and carried Japanese commercial and government equipment. After attempting to land module M1 ispace will launch Mission 2 and Mission 3 in 2024 and 2025 respectively.
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