Resilience began the landing sequence as planned, but the land control center lost communication with the module after this phase.
The Japanese company Ispace, who wanted to make Resilience the first Japanese and Asian landing module in the private sector to reach the surface of the moon, said the failure of the mission on Friday.
The resilience module began the landing sequence as planned in the early hours of the morning in Japan, but the land control center was unable to establish communication after this phase.
“At 8:00 pm local time (midnight in Lisbon) on June 6, 2025, mission controllers determined that communication with the landing module is unlikely to be restored and therefore it is not possible to complete [o penúltimo] Success 9 [etapa]”The company said in a statement.” It was decided to finish the mission, “he said.
This was ISPACE’s second lunar mission, after the first of the company ended up with a Rugged landing, which inspired the name “resilience” given to the successor of this first ship.
Resilience contains a rover with a shovel to collect lunar dirt, as well as A red house in the size of a Swedish artist toy to be placed on the dusty surface of the moon.
Launched in January in Florida, Resilience entered lunar orbit last month. Shared a Spacex ride with the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost, which arrived in the moon faster and became The first private entity to successfully land in March.
Another US company, Intuitive Machines, arrived in the moon a few days after Firefly, but The ship fell into a crater near the southern pole of the moon and was declared inoperable in a few hours.
A Resilience target the top of the moona less threatening place than the dark background. The ISPACE team chose a flat area with few rocks in the cold mare or cold sea, a long, narrow region full of craters and old lava flows that extends from the northern layer next side.
Plans anticipated that the 2.3 meter resilience would transmit images within hours and that the land module lowered the ‘rover’ to the lunar surface.
