NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the impact site of Japanese company ispace's lunar lander.
Final Impact
NASA says it's spotted the impact site of Japanese company ispace's lunar lander, which made a hard impact with the lunar surface last month.taken by the agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show four large craters dotting the Moon's surface, likely the remains of ispace's HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lander.
The robotic spacecraft company was hoping to become the first to land and operate a privately-funded spacecraft on the lunar surface. But on April 25, mission control in Tokyo"We have not confirmed communication from the lander," a somber ispace founder Takeshi Hakamada said during aJust a day later, NASA's LRO flew by the impact site, acquiring ten images that cover a region of roughly 25 by 28 miles.
"This site will be analyzed more over the coming months as LROC has the opportunity to reimage the site under various lighting and viewing geometries," reads the post. It wouldn't be the first time the LRO spotted the remains of landers that crashed on the lunar surface. In 2019, the orbiter
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