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#China 🇨🇳 has four successful #Chang’e robotic landings.

#Failures include #Hakuto-R 🇯🇵, #Beresheet 🇮🇱, #Luna 25 🇷🇺 and #Chandrayaan2 🇮🇳 (#Chandrayaan3 was successful).

#SLIM 🇯🇵, #Odysseus and #Athena 🇺🇸 landed and communicated back to Earth, but all three toppled over after landing https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/21/science/blue-ghost-moon-landing.html

#Moon #lander

Bright spots like those are seen around some lunar landers after a liftoff - Apollo 11 and Luna 24 are examples. But these are scattered along a line extending 2000 m northeast, not all close to the lander (and of course, no liftoff...). They might be bits of thermal blanket or wrapping, but why are they spread out like that? I have not seen any explanation yet.
#moon #ispace #hakuto

This image starts with 3 views of the Resilience impact site. A is OHRC before the impact. B is OHRC after the impact. C is LRO's Narrow Angle Camera after impact. Usually LRO stands out as a marvellous camera but here OHRC takes the prize. LRO doesn't always look this bad - it might have had some temporary issue like overheating. D is a map showing the small bright debris patches first identified by Shan Subramanian.
#moon #ispace #hakuto

That site was found in OHRC images by Shan Subramanian:

https://twitter.com/Ramanean/status/1935917961929252891

My map in the last post shows debris fragments. How do we know that's what they are? Because OHRC imaged the site before and after the landing (shown in one of Shan's tweets). There are more of them - we will see more about this tomorrow. And we will be seeing more from this amazing camera later.
#moon #ispace #hakuto

This set of maps zooms in to the Resilience impact site. Map B includes a box showing the area mapped by the LRO imaging team. Map C shows two targets, one from coordinates released in September 2024, the second illustrated in a video just before the landing. The actual impact was only just outside the second target. Map D uses an image from Chandrayaan 2's Orbiter High Resolution Camera, the best camera in lunar orbit today (sorry, LRO).
#moon #ispace #hakuto

These are the 4 Resilience sites. I expect the site selection process will be published eventually (Mission 1's was). Meanwhile this is what we have. The top map shows all 4 sites, and below each one is enlarged. The prime site was the one used for the mission. If successful this would have been the northernmost landing on the Moon. Alas, it crashed during final approach to the prime site. It would have deployed a rover called Tenacious.
#moon #ispace #hakuto

Back to Resilience, a private Japanese mission by ispace. The company grew out of one of the Google Lunar X Prize teams, Hakuto, which itself evolved from one of the early GLXP teams, White Label Space. GLXP was complicated and its history might show up here one day.

ispace's early missions were called Hakuto-R (R for Reboot). The first crashed in Atlas crater in April 2023. Resilience was targeted for Mare Frigoris at 60 north. Where were the sites?
#moon #ispace #hakuto

But this polar mission study will have to wait for some future implementation. ispace's second mission (the first crashed in Atlas crater in 2023) went to Mare Frigoris in the northern mid-latitudes. Tomorrow we will look at that site.
#moon #ispace #hakuto

At top left a context map shows the landing area at 82 degrees south. Top right shows the target area south of the crater Svedberg. The southern rim of Svedberg casts a shadow over a hollow which is never fully illuminated by the sun. The middle map shows this target area with 8 landing sites in better-lit areas. At lower right the preferred landing circle has a rover path into an often-shaded area where ices might be found. At bottom left is a closeup of the landing site.
#moon #ispace #hakuto

Finally, insurance for the flight was provided by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company. Names were not always used consistently, and sometimes they were combined to form ‘ispace's SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2’ or other variations. I will call it Resilience.

But first, ispace (through its European offshoot in Luxembourg) spent several years studying a mission near the south pole. The mission was called Polar Ice Explorer. This map shows its study area.
#moon #ispace #hakuto

We move on to the next lunar mission, launched on the same day (15 January 2025) as Firefly's BGM1... on the same rocket. It followed a slow, low energy, path to the Moon and arrived in orbit on 6 May. The landing attempt was on 5 June and it failed. What was it called? oh boy - hang on.

The private Japanese company involved is called ispace (no CAP). HAKUTO-R is the program, Venture Moon is the mission and Resilience is the spacecraft. Stay with me...
#moon #ispace #hakuto

2 more years.
Yesterday #ispace 's #moonlanding of #resilience and #hakuto failed. One goal was a sample of moondust to sell it to #NASA, but only for self-collection. For 5k $, they say. This meant the first private #mining contract in #space. The plan: produce accomplished facts, a binding precedent.
Now we have 2 more years to find new rules for space and to convince every player that we need those rules for the sake of a peaceful future and the security of our species.

#iSpace #Hakuto-R MCC will contiuonulsy attempt to contact the lander, there will be a press event in a few hours but it sounds like they are ending the live stream without confirming the lander's status. It does NOT sound good. Here's the link to replay livestream

https://www.youtube.com/live/BVSMXQPeTcw?feature=shared

The signal from #Hakuto-R Mission 2 #Resilience live as received by the big #Bochum dish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkRSWm0vAaM

After landing, the ispace RESILIENCE lander will have about 14 earth days (one lunar day) to complete its mission, before night falls, bringing darkness and brutally cold temperatures.

Similar to other recent robotic landers, RESILIENCE is powered by solar cells and will not have sufficient energy storage to survive the lunar night.

#Moon #Space #MoonLanding #HAKUTO #ispace
5/n

Now streaming on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sVj3TmAELo "ispace #HAKUTO-R Mission 2: Midterm Report" with live simultaneous translation into English

And here is the confirmation (because the time given is identical) that #HAKUTO-R M2 is to be launched together with #BlueGhost on the same #Falcon9 to the Moon: https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=6678 - the other mission is not mentioned at all, though, while NASA in turn hadn't mentioned HAKUTO-R in its launch date announcement ... how silly is this, please?

Hackaday Links: June 4, 2023 - A report released this week suggests that 50 flights into its five-flight schedule... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/04/hackaday-links-june-4-2023/ #darksideofthemoon #hackadaycolumns #refractiveindex #hackadaylinks #perserverance #amateurradio #cryptography #interference #ingenuity #pinkfloyd #hakuto-r #physics #slider #decode #jezero #optics #prism #mars #seti #fcc #ham

How #HAKUTO-R Mission 1 crashed onto the Moon because its software thought it was much lower than it really was: a slide from today's press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owt2u9SJIbU, more in https://twitter.com/cosmos4u/status/1662177553300242441 and a detailled description of the findings in the press release https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=4691

Pensava di essere ormai sulla superficie e invece era ancora a 5 km di altezza: a fare schiantare sulla #Luna il lander giapponese #HAKUTO-R è stato un malfunzionamento nel sistema che calcola l'altitudine
https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=4691

Space News: NASA located ispace’s lander that crashed into the Moon in the Hakuto-R mission. https://qz.com/nasa-found-the-japanese-moon-lander-that-crashed-into-t-1850465695 #ispace #moon #space #NASA #Lunar #Hakuto-R #crash #crashlanding #spaceflight

#SciLogs:

"AMSAT beobachtet den Hakuto-Absturz"

Von Michael Khan:

https://scilogs.spektrum.de/go-for-launch/amsat-beobachtet-den-hakuto-absturz/

#AMSAT #Bochum #Hakuto #HakutoR #iSpace #LRO #Mond #Mondlander #Raumfahrt

22.5.2023

Ecco il punto di impatto sulla Luna del lander giapponese #Hakuto-R, che ha fallito l'allunaggio il 25 aprile. Lo ha fotografato la sonda Lunar Reconnaissance della Nasa
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-lro-views-impact-site-of-hakuto-r-mission-1-moon-lander/

Just in - an LROC image showing "at least four prominent pieces of debris [of the crashed #HAKUTO-R M1 lander] and several small changes" on the lunar surface: go to http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/1302 for this image taken the day after being blinked against an earlier one.

Analysis of #HAKUTO-R Spacecraft Landing on the Moon, 2023-Apr-25 (from amateur radio observations): https://amsat-dl.org/en/analysis-of-hakuto-r-spacecraft-landing-on-the-moon-2023-apr-25/ -> "The ispace HAKUTO-R M1 spacecraft mission was planned to land on Earth’s Moon in or near Atlas crater at 2023-04-25 16:40 utc. But the HAKUTO-R M1 signal ceased abruptly at 16:45:09 utc, and it was immediately clear that the spacecraft had not landed as planned. The final 88s of doppler shift profile indicated free fall, followed by a destructive landing on the Moon"

Map of solar system exploration updated May 1 2023
Hello #JUICE
RIP #Hakuto
(Credit: Olaf Frohn)

The Japanese mission #HAKUTO-R was supposed to land on the #Moon two days ago, but it is now believed that the spacecraft crashed into the surface. This spacecraft was built by the privately funded company #ispace.

This failure follows on the crash of the #Beresheet lander on April 11 2019 that was built by the private Israeli company #SpaceIL.

This year we will see three more landing attempts by the private US companies #Astrobotics and #IntuitiveMachines.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01441-y

On what happened to the HAKUTO-R M1 spacecraft, which was due to touch down in the Moon’s Atlas crater two days ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01441-y

#space #science #research #moon #spacecraft #lander #moonlander #hakuto #hakuto_r #ispace #nature #astrodon