Japan's Resilience Lunar Mission Failed
On Thursday, Japan's private space company, Ispace, announced that its anticipated Resilience lunar mission failed. Reports highlighted that the lunar lander likely crashed into the moon.
'This is our second failure, and about these results, we have to really take it seriously,' Ispace's CEO Takeshi Hakamada said.
The company's said that data sent back from the spacecraft to mission control before landing was different from the issue behind the 2023 lunar mission failure.
'The data that we've been looking at — it wasn't exactly the same as we have seen from the first mission,' said Ispace's Chief Technology Officer Ryo Ujiie.
The Hakuto-R spacecraft crash-landed during that trip after a software error caused the device to miscalculate its altitude.
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