A Japanese company just tried to land its own spacecraft on the moon, but its fate is currently unknown. Flight controllers lost contact with it moments before a planned touchdown.
A model of the lander of HAKUTO-R private lunar exploration program is displayed prior to livestream of the lunar landing event Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, in Tokyo. Tokyo's ispace company put its own spacecraft into orbit around the moon a month ago. Flight controllers will direct the craft, named Hakuto, Japanese for white rabbit, to descend from 60 miles high and land on Wednesday.
Controllers peered at their screens in Tokyo, expressionless, as the minutes went by with still no word from the lander. Only three governments have successfully landed on the moon: Russia, the United States and China. An Israeli nonprofit tried to land on the moon in 2019, but its spacecraft was destroyed on impact.
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