The Japanese special mission that was forced to land on the moon
The Japanese company that gave it ispace Your lunar mission failed Friday, after losing contact with the flexibility landing unit. The target was an ambition: to become the first private company in Japan – from all over Asia – to form an artifact on the moon. But after maneuvering, the lineage, There was no response to the unitAnd hours of silence sealed the result.
The unity of flexibility began, as planned to the arrangement in the early morning of Japanese, but the control center was unable to create communication after this stage.
At 8:00 local time (01:00 on Thursday in Spain) on June 6, 2025, the specified task control units are The unlikely communication has been restored With the landing unit, and therefore, (the step) cannot be completed 9 (penultimate). “The task has been determined,” the company said in a statement.
The engineers of the Hakoto Center.
The slope of the approximate height is 100 km to about 20 km and then He succeeded in running his main engineThe company said on how to develop the process.
While it was emphasized that the position of the unit was almost vertical, it was lost by the measurement later and No data has been received to indicate a successful lunar landing.
According to the analysis conducted by the control center with the available data, the laser installation scale is used to measure the distance to the experiences of the moon’s surface to obtain valid measurement values, and as a result, The moon landing unit was unable to slow down It is enough to reach the required speed for the planned lunar landing.
“Based on these circumstances, the landing unit is supposed to have achieved enforced landing on the surface of the moon,” the ISPace team, which is not at a time when it does not exceed the details about the destination and the state of the stereotype.
“Due to the lack of views of the successful lunar landing, our maximum priority is to analyze the measurement data remotely and work hard to determine the case,” said ISPace, the founder and executive director of ISPace, Takehi Hakamada, with other members of the task that are clearly affected.
The flexibility that you intend to imagine at 4:17 local time on Friday (19:17 GMT on Thursday) was broadcast directly via the Internet and personally at its headquarters in Tokyo and its international subsidiary companies, in the broadcast that began full of optimism after failing two years ago.
About 20 minutes after the decline in the decline, one of the people responsible for the transmission indicated that contacting the device has not been confirmed yet, but controlling members will continue to try to communicate with him, and shortly after the end of the live broadcast.
What happened actually happened in April 2023, when the first Hakuto-R mission (this was the second) in failure when I lost communication moments before hunting the moon.
The flexibility unit had planned to clean it in the Mary Frigoris Plain, in the northern hemisphere of the moon, and carried a violent microfer, designed, made and collected in Europe by ISPace, to exploit the surface of the surface.
In addition to the small Rover, carrying other useful scientific loads such as the electrolysis device to separate the water to the hydrogen and oxygen for the first time on the moon, or an experiment to produce food or radiation probe in the distant space.
Japanese ISPace has already tried, without success, to become the first Japanese and Asian company to descend on the moon. So far, the only private companies that achieve this were an intuitive Americans machine, with their Odysseus unit in February 2024 and Firefly Aerospace, with Blue Ghost last March.
Flexibility was launched in January this year on the Falcon 9 Spacex missile and entered the orbit of the moon at the beginning of May, when it was going on without problems waiting for Alunize.
