The Japanese Hakuto lunar lander likely made a hard landing on the moon's surface on Tuesday. Ispace said that it lost communications with the lander and was not receiving data.
likely crashed on the moon's surface on Tuesday, according to ispace, the company that launched the spacecraft.
The scientists lost communication with the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander after touchdown, although it was determined that the 7-foot-tall lander was in a vertical position as it approached the lunar surface. Shortly after the scheduled landing time, no data was received indicating a touchdown, and ispace inc. engineers monitored the estimated remaining propellant reached at the lower threshold and shortly afterward the descent speed rapidly increased.
"Based on this, it has been determined that there is a high probability that the lander eventually made a hard landing on the moon’s surface," ispace said in a statement. Takeshi Hakamada, CEO of Japanese firm ispace, bows after explaining that the communication of the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander developed by ispace has been cut off, in Tokyo on April 26, 2023.In order to find the cause of the resulting crash, engineers are working on a detailed analysis of the telemetry data acquired until the end of landing sequence, and will clarify the details after completing the analysis.
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