A private lunar lander from Japan has crashed into the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander on Friday. Flight controllers tried to gain contact, but were met with only silence.
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How to know what's right for youFilm festival showcases what artificial intelligence can do on the big screenA young trans woman's journey, and her latest destination: World Pride in WashingtonPope Leo criticizes political nationalism and prays for reconciliation and dialogueRestricciones de viaje decretadas por Trump empiezan el lunesScienceA private lunar lander from Japan fell silent while descending to the moon with a mini rover and its fate was unknown. This image taken from video shows flight controllers at ispace Mission Control in Tokyo awaiting confirmation of their private lunar lander touching down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025. This image provided by ispace, inc. shows the Resilience lander circling the moon, Wednesday June 4, 2025. This image taken from video shows ispace CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada speaking before a private lunar lander attempt on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025. People await the update on ispace’s private lunar lander’s attempt to touch down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. ispace CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada, center, attends a press conference about their private lunar lander’s attempt on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. A private lunar lander from Japan fell silent while descending to the moon with a mini rover and its fate was unknown. This image taken from video shows flight controllers at ispace Mission Control in Tokyo awaiting confirmation of their private lunar lander touching down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025. This image taken from video shows flight controllers at ispace Mission Control in Tokyo awaiting confirmation of their private lunar lander touching down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025. This image provided by ispace, inc. shows the Resilience lander circling the moon, Wednesday June 4, 2025. This image provided by ispace, inc. shows the Resilience lander circling the moon, Wednesday June 4, 2025. This image taken from video shows ispace CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada speaking before a private lunar lander attempt on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025. This image taken from video shows ispace CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada speaking before a private lunar lander attempt on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025. People await the update on ispace’s private lunar lander’s attempt to touch down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. People await the update on ispace’s private lunar lander’s attempt to touch down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. ispace CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada, center, attends a press conference about their private lunar lander’s attempt on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. ispace CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada, center, attends a press conference about their private lunar lander’s attempt on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander. Flight controllers scrambled to gain contact, but were met with only silence and said they were concluding the mission. Communications ceased less than two minutes before the spacecraft’s scheduled landing on the moon with a mini rover. Until then, the descent from lunar orbit seemed to be going well. This image provided by ispace, inc. shows the Resilience lander circling the moon, Wednesday June 4, 2025. This image provided by ispace, inc. shows the Resilience lander circling the moon, Wednesday June 4, 2025. CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada apologized to everyone who contributed to the mission, the second lunar strikeout for ispace., giving rise to the name “Resilience” for its successor lander. Resilience carried a rover with a shovel to gather lunar dirt as well as a Swedish artist’sInvestors dump Tesla stock following war of words between Elon Musk and Donald Trump“This is the second time that we were not able to land. So we really have to take it very seriously,” Hakamada told reporters. He stressed that the company would press ahead with more lunar missions. This image taken from video shows ispace CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada speaking before a private lunar lander attempt on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025. This image taken from video shows ispace CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada speaking before a private lunar lander attempt on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025. A preliminary analysis indicates the laser system for measuring the altitude did not work as planned, and the lander descended too fast, officials said. “Based on these circumstances, it is currently assumed that the lander likely performed a hard landing on the lunar surface,” the company said in a written statement.Long the province of governments, the moon became a target of private outfits in 2019, with more flops than wins along the way. Launched in January from Florida on a long, roundabout journey, Resilience entered lunar orbit last month. It shared a SpaceX ride with Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost, which reached the moon faster and became the first private entity to successfully land there in March. Another U.S. company, Intuitive Machines, arrived at the moon a few days after Firefly. But the tall, spindly lander face-planted in a crater near the moon’s south pole and was declared dead within hours. Resilience was targeting the top of the moon, a less treacherous place than the shadowy bottom. The ispace team chose a flat area with few boulders in Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold, a long and narrow region full of craters and ancient lava flows that stretches across the near side’s northern tier. Plans had called for the 7.5-foot Resilience to beam back pictures within hours and for the lander to lower the piggybacking rover onto the lunar surface this weekend. Made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic with four wheels, ispace’s European-built rover — named Tenacious — sported a high-definition camera to scout out the area and a shovel to scoop up some lunar dirt for NASA. People await the update on ispace’s private lunar lander’s attempt to touch down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. People await the update on ispace’s private lunar lander’s attempt to touch down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. The rover, weighing just 11 pounds , was going to stick close to the lander, going in circles at a speed of less than one inch per second. It was capable of venturing up to two-thirds of a mile from the lander and should be operational throughout the two-week mission, the period of daylight.The rover held a tiny, Swedish-style red cottage with white trim and a green door, dubbed the Moonhouse by creator Mikael Genberg, for placement on the lunar surface. Minutes before the attempted landing, Hakamada assured everyone that ispace had learned from its first failed mission. “Engineers did everything they possibly could” to ensure success this time, he said. He considered the latest moonshot “merely a steppingstone” to its bigger lander launching by 2027 with NASA involvement. Ispace, like other businesses, does not have “infinite funds” and cannot afford repeated failures, Jeremy Fix, chief engineer for ispace’s U.S. subsidiary, said at a conference last month. While not divulging the cost of the current mission, company officials said it’s less than the first one which exceeded $100 million. Two other U.S. companies are aiming for moon landings by year’s end: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Astrobotic Technology. Astrobotic’s first lunar lander missed the moon altogether in 2024 and came crashing back through Earth’s atmosphere. For decades, governments competed to get to the moon. Only five countries have pulled off successful robotic lunar landings: Russia, the U.S., China, India and Japan. Of those, only the U.S. has landed people on the moon: 12 NASA astronauts from 1969 through 1972. ispace CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada, center, attends a press conference about their private lunar lander’s attempt on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. ispace CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada, center, attends a press conference about their private lunar lander’s attempt on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. NASA expects to send four astronauts around the moon next year. That would be followed a year or more later by the first lunar landing by a crew in more than a half-century, with SpaceX’s Starship providing the lift from lunar orbit all the way down to the surface. 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