Tokyo-based Space Inc. said he is trying to make contact with his lunar lander after trying to become the first non-US company to reach the surface of the moon.
The flexibility lander of the Space was expected to touch the moon after the time of Japan on Friday, but the company ended its live stream of landing attempts without confirming the position of the mission.
A press conference is scheduled for 9 am, the company said.
Mission follows a failed attempt in 2023 when a programming error caused the spacecraft accident. Today, success makes the third company the third company that Texas -based rivals -based rivals to the Moon after the intensive machine ink and the firefly aerospace ink to safely park a spacecraft on the moon, as the country to detect the moon as countries.
The Japanese lander launched in space in Spacex in SpaceX in January in space. The rocket also launched a lander from Jugnu which touched the lunar surface in March.
The flexibility was expected to be sent to its rover, named Tencius, which is equipped with a high-definition camera and a shovel, a shovel to collect lunar resolith and transmit the data back to the lander. ISPACE signed a contract with NASA in 2020 to provide an American agency with a resolith collected on the surface of the moon.
Customers in the lander are payload, with different objectives including a monument plate from the name Bandai Namko Research Institute Inc. – a collaborator of the entertainment company behind game brands such as PAC Man and Gundam – and a device to extract hydrogen from practical equipment such as hydrogen.
According to the company’s founder and CEO Taakeshi Hakmada, the Space plans to send its landers to the moon more often in 2027, with two or three times a year to transport payload. The plan is based on his belief that humans can start living on the moon in the early 2040s.
A successful mission would be a dual win for Hakmada, who said in an interview before the landing effort that Japan would lose on opportunities to seek fresh development if he refuses to accept failures as nature.
“This would be a great disadvantage to our society if the failure only discourages bold efforts and tests,” he said. “We did not make it first, which was unfortunate. But we worked to be a second time.”
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