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ispace loses contact with lunar lander seconds before landing
ispace loses contact with lunar lander seconds before landing
S.T.E.M. Space 

ispace loses contact with lunar lander seconds before landing

Aria Alamalhodaei 58 Views, 1 min read

Japanese company ispace lost communication with its Hakuto-R lander just moments before it was supposed to touch down on the lunar surface. “At this moment, we have not been able to confirm successful landing on the lunar surface,” ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada said on the company’s livestream. “Currently, we have not confirmed the communication from […]

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Watch ispace attempt to land on the moon for the first time
Watch ispace attempt to land on the moon for the first time
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Watch ispace attempt to land on the moon for the first time

Aria Alamalhodaei 36 Views, 1 min read

After five long months journeying through space, ispace’s Hakuto-R lander is ready to greet the lunar surface. The Japanese company is expecting to land Hakuto-R at 12:40 PM EST today. If successful, this first mission will no doubt be a huge boon for ispace’s ambitious plans to send two subsequent landers to the moon in […]

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Japanese firm ispace lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ahead of first lunar landing
Japanese firm ispace lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ahead of first lunar landing
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Japanese firm ispace lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ahead of first lunar landing

Aria Alamalhodaei 55 Views, 1 min read

ispace, a company with a spacecraft en route to the moon, is now trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Japanese firm raised around $52 million (¥6.7 billion) in an initial public offering last month. Shares reportedly went untraded on the first listing day due to a large volume of buy orders and demand to […]

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Eyeing a new lunar economy, ispace plans to land on the moon at the end of April
Eyeing a new lunar economy, ispace plans to land on the moon at the end of April
S.T.E.M. Space 

Eyeing a new lunar economy, ispace plans to land on the moon at the end of April

Aria Alamalhodaei 111 Views, 2 min read

Tokyo-based ispace said Monday that its Hakuto-R lunar lander is on track to reach the moon at the end of April. ispace launched the lander on board a Falcon 9 in December; since then, the spacecraft has traveled around 1,376 million kilometers, the farthest a privately funded, commercial operating spacecraft has ever journeyed into deep […]

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NASA’s Orion capsule returns to Earth as ispace’s lunar lander takes flight
NASA’s Orion capsule returns to Earth as ispace’s lunar lander takes flight
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NASA’s Orion capsule returns to Earth as ispace’s lunar lander takes flight

Aria Alamalhodaei 179 Views, , , , , , 3 min read

Sunday was a landmark day for both commercial and public space ventures, with NASA’s Orion capsule returning to Earth just hours after the launch of a privately funded and built lunar lander by Japanese company ispace. The two missions — the conclusion of NASA’s Artemis I and ispace’s Mission 1 — are some of the […]

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ispace wants to stake its claim to the moon with November launch
ispace wants to stake its claim to the moon with November launch
S.T.E.M. Space Startups 

ispace wants to stake its claim to the moon with November launch

Aria Alamalhodaei 208 Views, , 1 min read

Tokyo-based startup ispace’s lunar ambitions will soon be put to the test, as the company gears up for its first launch at the end of this month. The startup will attempt to send its “Hakuto-R” lander to the moon’s surface, kicking off an ambitious lunar exploration program of the same name. Founded in 2010, ispace […]

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Moon set for November traffic jam as both ispace and NASA target launches
Moon set for November traffic jam as both ispace and NASA target launches
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Moon set for November traffic jam as both ispace and NASA target launches

Aria Alamalhodaei 207 Views, , 2 min read

If all goes to plan, Florida’s Space Coast could see two separate lunar missions take off in November. Japanese startup ispace said Wednesday it is targeting a launch window of November 9-15 for its first lunar lander mission. Separately, NASA set a trio of possible November launch dates for Artemis I, the first in a […]

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