Watch Live as Japanese Startup Attempts Moon Landing After Failed First Mission

Handner has spent the past six months traveling to the moon, with plans for the bottom in its extreme northern region. The Japanese company ISPace aims to drop Thursday – a second attempt to reach the moon.

Flexibility is scheduled to land on June 5 at 3:24 pm East time, with the aim of smooth landing near the center of the Marie Fryjuris region (which is almost translated into the cold sea). The attempt to land on the air will be broadcast on YouTube channel from ISPace, starting from about one hour before the scheduled landing. You can also adjust the feeding below.

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Tokyo -based ISPace launched its second mission to the moon on January 15. And flexibility was raised on a trip alongside another land heading to the moon. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost fell on the moon on March 2, while flexibility took a much longer path. Flexibility first works in an oval orbit before using the moon fly to move to the low -energy transfer path that would enable it to try to say soft landing. Lander has succeeded in examining all tropical maneuvers and will remain in the orbit of the large moon until the big day, according to ISPace. In its attempt to land, the flexibility will automatically launch its main payment system to gradually nullify and adjust its height to start the current orbit towards the moon.

Lander carries a small Rover, called Tenacious, to Mare Friigoris, located in the northern maximum moon. It is also full of science tools, especially from commercial space projects in Japan, designed to explore the moon’s surface.

This is the second ISPace attempt to land on the moon, although the first did not succeed. In April 2023, Hakoto R1 (M1) Lunar Lander fell towards the moon and crashed on its surface. The company later revealed that during the Lander descending towards the surface of the moon, Hakuto-R estimated that it was very close to the height of zero when it was about 3 miles (5 km) over the surface. As a result, the same drop slowed during its descent, and finally ran out of fuel and free wrapping on the moon. The Hakuto-R M1 was carrying commercial and government-owned commercial loads, including a convertible small robot from the Japanese Space Agency.

Japanese startup members are optimistic that their second go to lower moon. “We have benefited from the operational experience gained in Mission 1 and during this current trip to the moon, we are confident in our preparations to achieve the success of the lunar landing,” Takishi Hakamada, the founder and CEO of ISPace, said in a statement.

The moon has received a number of Landers in the past few years, as more commercial companies are trying to get rid of its harsh surface. Startup, which is based on Texas, has not collided with its headquarters, but was destroyed, but two Landers, as Nova-C and Athena ended on their sides.