On a live video streamed by the company, a pall of silence enveloped the control room in Tokyo where Ispace engineers, mostly young and from around the world, looked with concerned expressions at their screens.
Eastern time on Tuesday, the lander, about 7.5 feet tall, was expected to land in Atlas Crater, a 54-mile-wide feature in the northeast quadrant of the near side of the moon.īut after the time of touchdown, no signal was received from the spacecraft. Analysis of data from the vehicle suggests it ran out of propellant during its final approach and instead of landing softly crashed into the lunar surface.Īfter firing its main engine, the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander built by Ispace of Japan dropped out of lunar orbit.
A Japanese company has lost contact with a small robotic spacecraft it was sending to the moon.
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