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Originally Posted by stumppy
Bummer!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...b5ece9c3&ei=37
A mission to the moon has apparently ended in failure
A Japanese startup appears to have failed in its effort to become the first to achieve a privately funded moon landing.
Tokyo-based ispace was attempting to land the Hakuto-R Series 1 lander on the surface of the moon at 9:40 p.m. PT on Tuesday, April 25 (1:40 a.m. on Wednesday, April 26, Tokyo time), but it lost contact with the vehicle at around that time.
“At this time, our Mission Control Center in Tokyo has not been able to confirm the success of the lander,” ispace tweeted about 90 minutes after it had hoped to set down the lander.
It added: “Our engineers and mission operations specialists in our Mission Control Center are currently working to confirm the current status of the lander.”................. |
They never should have called the lander the Kamakazi.