5/10/2023 0 Comments How High the Moon by kyliselle![]() ![]() If all had gone well, ispace would have been the first private business to pull off a lunar landing. ![]() Official word finally came in a statement: “It has been determined that there is a high probability that the lander eventually made a hard landing on the moon’s surface." Flight controllers peered at their screens in Tokyo as minutes went by with only silence from the moon.Ī grim-faced team surrounded Hakamada as he announced that the landing likely failed. Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace, held out hope even after contact was lost as the lander descended the final 33 feet (10 meters). It was a disappointing setback for ispace, which after a 4 1/2-month mission had been on the verge of doing what only three countries have done: successfully land a spacecraft on the moon. More than six hours after communication ceased, the Tokyo company ispace finally confirmed what everyone had suspected, saying there was “a high probability” that the lander had slammed into the moon. ![]() A Japanese company’s spacecraft apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon Wednesday, losing contact moments before touchdown and sending flight controllers scrambling to figure out what happened. ![]()
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