Japanese company loses contact with moon lander in likely crash

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‘We have to assume that we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface,’ said ispace founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada

A Japanese company lost contact with its spacecraft moments before touchdown on the moon Wednesday, saying the mission had apparently failed.

“We have to assume that we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface,” said Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of the company, ispace. Only three governments have successfully touched down on the moon: Russia, the United States and China. An Israeli nonprofit tried to land on the moon in 2019, but its spacecraft was destroyed on impact.

 

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