ISPace in Japan aborted the task to be the first non -American private company to land on the moon after the suspect’s crash
The startup said that Japan’s hopes for achieving its first soft landing on the moon by a private company had decreased on Friday when the mission was thwarted after the outbreak of a crash.
Tokyo-based ISPace was hoping to make history only the third private company-and the first is the first outside the United States-to be controlled on the moon’s surface.
But “based on the data currently available … the performance is currently supposed to have achieved a harsh decline.”
“It has been decided to conclude the mission,” ISPace said in a statement.
Failure comes two years after the end of a previous mission in a crash.
ISPace said on Friday that the uninhabited spacecraft in the company started out of its arduous final origin and “successfully fired in its main engine as planned to start.”
The task control confirmed that Lander’s position was “almost vertical” – but then was contacted, with a mood on the live broadcast of control of the task.
ISPace said that technical problems mean that “the landing was not able to slow enough to reach the speed required for the planned lunar landing.”
High -level load
So far, only five countries have achieved a smooth landing: the Soviet Union, the United States, China, India and the recent Japan.
Now, private companies join the race, promising promising and more frequently to reach the space.
On the flexibility, the land of flexibility was several high -level loads.
Tenacious included Luxembourg Micro Rover. Water -dissolved water to divide the molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. Food production experience; And a deep space radiation probe.
Rover also carried “Moonhouse” – a small house designed by Swedish artist Michael Genberg.
“I deal with the fact that the second attempt failed to land seriously,” CEO Takishi Hakamada told reporters.
“But the most important thing is to use this result” for future missions, he said, describing “a strong will to move forward, although we must analyze what happened carefully.”
Last year, Houston’s intuitive machines, the first private institution to reach the moon.
Although her improper migration fell at an embarrassing angle, he is still able to complete the tests and transfer photos.
Then in March of this year, the Blue Ghost of Firefly Aerospace – which was launched on the same SpaceX missile as ISPACE – appeared at an attempt to land lunar landing.
Do not leave
The mood before Friday’s attempt was a celebration, with a monitoring party carried by the American ISPace branch in Washington.
After losing contact, broadcasters signed Livestream ISPace with the message: “Never leave the moon’s endeavor.”
The task was also aimed at collecting two samples of lunar soil and selling them to NASA for $ 5,000.
Although the samples will remain on the moon, symbolic treatment aims to enhance the American position that commercial activity – although sovereign allegations – should be allowed to heavenly bodies.
The landing on the surface of the moon is very difficult as the spacecraft must rely on burning warmth that is accurately controlled to slow down their downward terrain.
The second attempt of the intuitive machines in the moon’s decline ended with disappointment in late March.
The ATHENA spacecraft, designed to photograph it on a spot called Mount-Mout-Closer to the Lunar South Pole more than any previous task-could not recharge the solar powered batteries.
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
