Race to the Moon · Japan
Full catalogue name: Hakuto-R Mission 1 (+ Rashid, SORA-Q)
Hakuto-R Mission 1 launched on 11 Dec 2022, 07:38 UTC. Hakuto-R Mission 1 is a lander + rover mission in the Hakuto-R programme by ispace (private), counted under Japan.
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No. Recorded result: crashed. Landing attempt failed (26 Apr JST) (about 25 Apr 2023). The mission as a whole is recorded as a failure.
Firsts: First private Japanese landing attempt; First Arab-built lunar rover (lost with the lander)
ispace (26 May 2023): the lander estimated its altitude as zero while it was about 5 km above the surface, ran out of propellant and is believed to have fallen; the most likely cause was that “the software did not perform as expected”.
Hakuto-R Mission 1 launched on 11 Dec 2022, 07:38 UTC.
Hakuto-R Mission 1 is a lander + rover mission in the Hakuto-R programme by ispace (private), counted under Japan.
No. Recorded result: crashed. Landing attempt failed (26 Apr JST) (about 25 Apr 2023). The mission as a whole is recorded as a failure.
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