A Japanese spacecraft catches the crash of the moon-again
Investigations to Japanese Ispace companies recognized issues with speed and a length sensor likely to destroy the lander
A Spacex Falcon 9 Rocket carrying the M2 Lunar lander in space.
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A Japanese spacecraft is likely to crash the moon, the second failed landing attempt for the private firm of Tokyo.
The Hakuto-R Mission 2 (M2) Lander – also called strength – began to come to landing from 100-kilometers orbit in 3.13an hours on 5 June. The craft is due to land near the center of Mare Frigoris (sea of cold) at 4.17am.
The team of ISPACE said in a press conference missing the M2 contact when the craft is 192 meters above the moon and overhead. An attempt to reboot M2 is not successful.
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The M2 did not receive distance measurements between himself and the lunar face of time to slow down and reach the right landing speed, the team said.
“Eventually, but not slowly,” says Clive Neal, who studied the month at the University of Notreapolis, US. He exposed that failure might cause the issue of a system not recognized and answered during the M1 landing test. “This is something I believe is definitely upright, because getting that closure means some tweaks needed for the next,” he added.
If M2 has been successfully reached by the lunar face, the mission is second time A commercial company achieves feat and first for a non-US company. The mission of ISPACE 1 (M1) may have collapsed in a landing test on April 2023.
Second time
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Talked to Nature Last week, Ujiie said the company responds to the telemetry issue with M2 and changed its software. “We also carefully choose how to approach the landing site,” he added.
M2 successfully reaches the crafts given to its cargo, including water electroly experts – developed by the taksagi engineering and biotechnology firm englena. A deep radiation radiation made at National Central University in Taiwan, and the 54-centimeter beautiful rover also obtained. The rover, made by Spourdiariyi subsidiary of Luxemburg, released from the owner to collect visualization, location data and lunar sandal known regolith. Tenacious also brings a small red house made by Swedish artist Mikael Genberg.
Commercial pair
The craft is launched on 15 January from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket. Rocket also brings to Blue Ghost Moon Lander – Developed by Firefly Aerospace, a Texas-based aerospace company – reaching the month of 2 March.
The M2 took a long road to the moon than the blue ghost, conducting a lunar flyby on 15th February and spending two months to enter the lunar orbit on 7 May. Ujiie says the passage is slow because it is a low-energy trajectory, which means that less fuel is used in motion between land and lunar orbit.
Richard de Grijs, an astronomer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, says that many private companies seek to land their own articles on the moon. “It seems like major government players like it wants to associate with commercial companies,” he says, because they can develop and launches crazes as cheap than government bodies. He also expected that many missions were launched in clusters, such as launching M2 and Blue Ghost.
This article has been copied with permission and first published On June 6, 2025.
