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Spaceship Earth, ispace

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The moon casts a shadow over Australia during a total solar eclipse, as the Earth rises over the moon's horizon. Days before Japan's Hakuto-R lunar lander  crashed into the moon's surface on  April 25, 2023, it snapped this gorgeous picture of our planet.

(Image credit: ispace)

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The HAKUTO-R M1 lunar lander appeared to be descending to the Moon as planned, posing ispace to claim the historic feat of the first private Moon landing – until it was supposed to touch down. The control room appeared tense in a livestream of the operation, which cut away after about five minutes with no update.

When the livestream resumed, ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada said that his team had communication with the lander up until the "very end" of the landing attempt.

"However, now we lost the communication, so we have to assume that we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface," he said. "Our engineers will continue to investigate the situation, and then we will update you [with] further information."

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TOKYO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Japan launched its lunar exploration spacecraft on Thursday aboard a homegrown H-IIA rocket, hoping to become the world's fifth country to land on the moon early next year.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said the rocket took off from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan as planned and successfully released the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM).

Unfavourable weather led to three postponements in a week last month.

Dubbed the "moon sniper," Japan aims to land SLIM within 100 metres of its target site on the lunar surface.

The $100-million mission is expected to start the landing by February after a long, fuel-efficient approach trajectory.

"The big objective of SLIM is to prove the high-accuracy landing ... to achieve 'landing where we want' on the lunar surface, rather than 'landing where we can'," JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa told a news conference.

The launch comes two weeks after India became the fourth nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon with its Chandrayaan-3 mission to the unexplored lunar south pole.

Around the same time, Russia's Luna-25 lander crashed while approaching the moon.

Two earlier lunar landing attempts by Japan failed in the last year.

JAXA lost contact with the OMOTENASHI lander and scrubbed an attempted landing in November.

The Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander, made by Japanese startup ispace (9348.T), crashed in April as it attempted to descend to the lunar surface.

SLIM is set to touch down on the near side of the moon close to Mare Nectaris, a lunar sea that, viewed from Earth, appears as a dark spot.

Its primary goal is to test advanced optical and image processing technology.

After landing, the craft aims to analyse the composition of olivine rocks near the sites in search of clues about the origin of the moon. No lunar rover is loaded on SLIM.

Thursday's H-IIA rocket also carried the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) satellite, a joint project of JAXA, NASA and the European Space Agency.

The satellite aims to observe plasma winds flowing through the universe that scientists see as key to helping understand the evolution of stars and galaxies.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (7011.T) manufactured the rocket and operated the launch, which marked the 47th H-IIA rocket Japan has launched since 2001, bringing the vehicle's success rate close to 98%.

JAXA had suspended the launch of H-IIA carrying SLIM for several months while it investigated the failure of its new medium-lift H3 rocket during its debut in March.

Japan's space missions have faced other recent setbacks, with the launch failure of the Epsilon small rocket in October 2022, followed by an engine explosion during a test in July.

The country aims to send an astronaut to the moon's surface in the latter half of the 2020s as part of NASA's Artemis programme.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/japan-launches-rocket-carrying-moon-lander-slim-after-three-delays-2023-09-06/

Japan launches 'Moon Sniper' mission | AFP

7 September 2023

Japan's "Moon Sniper" mission blasted off Thursday as the country's space programme looks to bounce back from a string of recent mishaps, weeks after India's historic lunar triumph.

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NASA's LRO views impact site of HAKUTO-R mission 1 moon lander The ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander was launched on Dec. 11, 2022, a privately funded spacecraft planned to land on the lunar surface. After a several-month journey to the moon, the spacecraft started a controlled descent to the surface to land near Atlas crater. The ispace team announced the following day that an anomaly occurred, and the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander had not safely touched down on the surface. HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander site, as seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) on April 26, 2023, the day after the attempted landing. The scale bar is 100 m across. LROC NAC image M1437131607R. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University The ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander was launched on Dec. 11, 2022, a privately funded spacecraft planned to land on the lunar surface. After a several-month journey to the moon, the spacecraft started a controlled descent to the surface to land near Atlas crater. The ispace team announced the following day that an anomaly occurred, and the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander had not safely touched down on the surface. On April 26, 2023, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft acquired 10 images around the landing site with its Narrow Angle Cameras. The images covered a region roughly 40 km by 45 km (about 25 miles by 28 miles). Using an image acquired before the landing attempt, the LRO Camera science team began searching for the lander. From the temporal image pair, the LRO Camera team identified an unusual surface change near the nominal landing site. The image shows at least four prominent pieces of debris and several small changes (47.581 degrees North latitude, 44.094 degrees East longitude). The central feature in the image above shows several bright pixels in the upper left and several dark pixels in the lower right. This is the opposite of nearby boulders, suggesting that this could be a small crater or different parts of the lander body. This site will be further analyzed over the coming months as LRO has the opportunity to make additional observations of the site under various lighting conditions and viewing angles. TOP IMAGE....HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander site, as seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) on April 26, 2023, the day after the attempted landing. The scale bar is 100 m across. LROC NAC image M1437131607R. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University CENTRE IMAGE....LROC Narrow Angle Camera mosaic of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander site made from the following image pairs: M1437138630L/R, 1437131607L/R, M1437124584L/R, 1437117561L/R, M1437110537L/R. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University LOWER IMAGE....Ratio image created by dividing the after (M1437131607R) and before (M192675639R) images. The impact created an area of higher reflectance, approximately 60-80 m across. The scale bar in the lower right is 50m across. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University

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Breaking News: iSpace Announces First Mission to the Moon!

Attention space enthusiasts! iSpace has just announced their first mission to the Moon! This exciting news is a major step forward for commercial space exploration and could pave the way for further space missions in the future.

According to reports, iSpace plans to launch its lunar lander in 2024 to conduct scientific research and potentially establish a lunar outpost in the future. This mission could mark a significant turning point in our understanding of the Moon and its potential as a destination for future space exploration.

If you're interested in learning more about this exciting development, be sure to check out the article on Nation Insight Feed: https://www.nationinsightfeed.com/2023/04/ispace-announces-first-mission-to-moon.html

Who knows what the future holds for space exploration? With companies like iSpace pushing the boundaries of what's possible, the possibilities are truly endless.

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It was night in Tokyo when the Hakuto-R lander of the Japanese company ispace inc. attempted the Moon landing. Shortly before the touchdown, the team at the mission control center lost contact with Hakuto-R, and the last phase of the maneuver was followed only through a simulation based on the braking programming. After more than half an hour of trying to reconnect with the lander, company founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada had to admit that he had to assume that the Moon landing could not be completed.

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Another “hard landing”?

Artist’s depiction of what will never happen now “We have to assume that we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface,” Hakamada said. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/04/25/ispace-moon-landing-watch-live.html Or… …Ispace engineers observed that the estimated remaining propellant was “at the lower threshold and shortly afterward the descent speed rapidly…

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SpaceX launches Japanese lander and UAE lunar rover into space.

The American aerospace company SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle with a Hakuto-R descent module of the private Japanese company ispace, on board of which is a miniature Rashid lunar rover, created in the United Arab Emirates. The rocket lifted off from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral in Florida at 02:38.

If all goes according to plan, the Hakuto-R descent module will make a soft landing on the lunar surface next spring - the first ever for a Japanese lander. “This is a very important moment. This will open the door to a commercial lunar industry,” said ispace Founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada.

The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket made a soft landing on a special platform of the cosmodrome about eight minutes after launch. The upper stage of the rocket delivered the Hakuto-R to its intended orbit approximately 47 minutes after launch. Another six minutes later, a tiny US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lunar probe called Lunar Flashlight was launched into orbit… Detail: https://bitcoingrandee.com/posts/43 NEWS

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Everyone's gone to the Moon

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SpaceX launches private Japanese Hakuto-R Moon lander

SpaceX launches private Japanese Hakuto-R Moon lander

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Hakuto-R Series 1 lunar lander for ispace. Credit: SpaceX After a nearly two-week delay, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched ispace’s small Hakuto-R M1 lunar lander toward the Moon. (more…)

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Tokyo-based Japanese startup iSpace Inc. to become the Lunar Version of FedEx

As humans seek out resources that may support life beyond Earth, an escalating US-China space rivalry and Elon Musk's ambitious Mars programme have sparked dozens of businesses around the world in search of lucrative contracts.

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Carly Shay’s black printed tank in “iSpace Out”!

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Japan’s iSpace HAKUTO-R lander captured this stunning photo in orbit around our Moon while a solar eclipse was occurring on Earth last week. You can see the Moon’s dark shadow passing above Australia as a dark smudge.