Picturing the Moon landing
We have a like an all hands room in Ispace US and in big letters across the wall is other words touchdown confirmed exclamation point and so um that is the vision that we are projecting um you know the positive v visualizing a positive future but I I think it’s going to be an incredibly emotional experience. I think everybody is going to feel a sense of of pride and relief and um that they they accomplished something really remarkable uh which we will have accomplished something really remarkable if if that telemetry comes across the screens. So,
Japan-based company ispace is making its second attempt to land on the surface of the Moon. It’s targeting a region in the northwest part of the Earth-facing side called ‘Mare Frigoris’ or ‘Sea of Cold.’
The company’s previous mission, HAKUTO-R, tried and failed to complete a soft touchdown on the lunar surface back in 2023. A software issue connected to the robotic lander’s altimeter caused it to misjudge its positing relative to the surface and it crash landed in a deep crater.
This go around, the roughly 7.5-foot-tall lander named Resilience will try to succeed where its predecessor failed and pave the way for a series of robotic landings for ispace as it begins to build its part of a larger cislunar economy.
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