Japan's Ispace moon lander assumed lost after attempted landing

[Jan]

Ispace moon lander may have crashed

Tokyo-based Ispace Inc. said it could not confirm if its spacecraft successfully landed on the moon. The company’s chief executive said it assumed the landing failed.

It was poised to become the first commercial space company to place a lander on the moon intact, with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander scheduled to touch down early Wednesday morning Japan time.

[Bloomberg]

 

[Pythonista]

Well - technically it did land ... just with not that much style.

 

[Death]

Well - technically it did land ... just with not that much style.

There's got to be a term for that like SpaceX's "RUD".
ALS (Alternate Landing Sequence) type of thing.

 

[chrisc]

Seeing there is a 2.5 second lag for radio signals to reach the moon, surely the landing sequence would be entirely automated?

Its not like the Japanese to not have thought everything through. They are so dedicated to getting things right

Not that its a fair comparison, but their driverless trains are faultless

 

[garyc]

57 years ago the Luna 9 probe made the first soft landing on the moon. Now a bunch of people are trying to emulate this. These endevours are leading up to trying to repeat a manned landing. Maybe some areas of technology have not advanced as much as we would hope.

 

[grok]

There's got to be a term for that like SpaceX's "RUD".
ALS (Alternate Landing Sequence) type of thing.

Sudden Unplanned Terminal Descent..

 

[Gordon_R]

Scott Manley explains that a software bug/design/testing error caused the crash:

 

[RedViking]

57 years ago the Luna 9 probe made the first soft landing on the moon. Now a bunch of people are trying to emulate this. These endevours are leading up to trying to repeat a manned landing. Maybe some areas of technology have not advanced as much as we would hope.

Or the moon landing was indeed fake.....