Japanese company ispace lost contact with its lunar lander mere minutes before it was supposed to touchdown on the surface, likely indicating that it crashed. A successful.
What just happened? To date, the governments of the United States, Russia, and China are the only entities to ever successfully land objects on the Moon. A Tokyo company hoped to join that club and become the first private group to complete a Moon landing this week, but the mission failed at the last minute. The company does not intend to give up however.
Japanese company ispace lost contact with its lunar lander mere minutes before it was supposed to touchdown on the surface, likely indicating that it crashed. A successful touchdown would have made the Tokyo-based business the first-ever private enterprise to complete a Moon landing.
The seven-foot lander named Hakuto (Japanese for white rabbit) descended the final 33 feet onto the lunar surface when communications ceased.
