Japan’s private resilience gives us a good moon shot in just two weeks before the historic test.
On Thursday morning (May 22), Tokyo-based ISPACE based on Tokyo, building and moving Strength, shared a picture of x that the examination was removed the moonSo South Polar Region.
“Strength snapped this photo in the South Pole on the moon from the lunar orbit, which captured the rough lunar parts. Ispace wrote to X post.
Steadfastness Launched on January 15 Rider in a Spacex Falcon 9 Rocket also brings a Private Month Lander: Firefly Aerospace’s Blue ghost.
The blue ghost touches On March 2becomes a second commercial car on soft land successful in the moon. . On May 6.
The Japanese lander is set to touch June 5 in Mare Frigoris (“Sea of Cold”), a volcano in northern hemisphere. Success can be great for Ispace and for Japan; The country has only one month landing under its belt, in the slim (“Smart Lander for the Moon Investigation ‘) spacecraft arrived at January 2024. (Slim operated by JaxaThe national agency in Japan’s space.)
ISPACE approaches Milestone notching: The first Moon Lander reached orbit successfully in March of 2023, but Failed during Touchdown Try A month later after confused with the rim of a crater.
Strength brings five science and technology fees of the month, including a small rover named born.
The small wheeled robot, built by the ispace European subsidiary, will try to collect the moon dirt under a contract Signed by NASA on 2020. Tenacious also brings some art in front of its bumper – a piece called “link“By Mikael Genberg in Sweden.
