. “ispace engineers monitored the estimated remaining propellant reached at the lower threshold and shortly afterward the descent speed rapidly increased.”Tokyo-based ispace officially declared its first mission a failure, although engineers are still analyzing the data collected before communication with the spacecraft was lost.
“It apparently went into a free-fall towards the surface as it was running out of fuel to fire up its thrusters,” Ryo Ujiie, chief technology officer at ispace, explained during a
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