by A laser navigation tool did the moonland of a Japanese company to fail at the beginning of this month, which caused it to fall into the moon.
ISPACE officers announced the news from Tokyo on Tuesday. The fall landing was the second for ISPACE in two years.
This time, the company’s lander, named Resilience, aimed at the far north of the moon in Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of NASA forwarded pictures from the crash site last week, on which the resilience and its mini rover had landed as debris.
Company officials accused the accident on the laser -Range -Finder of the LANDER and said that he was slowly entering and measuring the distance of the spacecraft to the surface of the moon properly. The resilience was off at a fast speed of 42 meters per second when the contact was lost, and fell five seconds later, they said.
The bad software caused Ispaces to be torn into the moon in 2023. As with the last attempt, the problem occurred during the last relegation phase.
Of seven moonland attempts for private outfits in recent years, only one overall can be used successfully: Firefly Aerospace touchdown of his Blue Ghost Lander in March. Blue Ghost started resilience in January and shared a SpaceX rocket trip from Florida.
Apart from Firefly in Texas, only five countries held a successful moon landing: the Soviet Union, the USA, China, India and Japan. And only the United States put astronauts on the moon, back during NASA’s Apollo program more than half a century ago.
Despite the successive losses, ISPACE is pushing NASA cooperation with its third lunar land trial in 2027 and a fourth planned mission. Officials said additional tests and improvements to the development costs at 1.5 billion yen (more than 10 million US dollars).
CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada emphasized that his company “had not resigned in view of the setbacks” and would like to regain the trust of customers. Experts of external experts will join the accident examination, and ISPACE will work more closely with the Japanese space agency in technical matters.
“We are taking the next step towards our future missions,” he said in Japanese.
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