It would have made it both the first private company to ever land a robotic probe on the surface of the moon, and the first time a Japanese mission has ever achieved a lunar landing.
Japanese aerospace company ispace attempted to make history on Tuesday when it sought to land a robotic probe on the surface of the moon—which would have made it both the first private company to ever do so and the first time a Japanese mission has ever achieved a lunar landing.
“We already confirmed that we established communication at the very end of the landing,” Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace, glumly told a crowd gathered to watch the event. “However, we’ve now lost communication so we have to assume that we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface.”
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