It would have been the world’s first commercial soft-landing on the Moon’s surface. Read more at straitstimes.com.
was caused by an altitude miscalculation that meant the spacecraft ran out of fuel, the company said on Friday.
The crash was the latest setback in Japan’s space programme. The national space agency in March had to destroy its new medium-lift H3 rocket after it reached space, and its solid-fuel Epsilon rocket failed after launch in October.“Through these two missions, it is very important for us to increase our knowledge as much as possible to achieve stable commercialisation in the future,” ispace chief executive Takeshi Hakamada told reporters at the Japan National Press Club.
Nasa has relied on billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX to carry many of its payloads into orbit. Last week, the agency awarded a lunar lander contract to Blue Origin, led by another billionaire, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. An ispace investigation showed that after the vehicle passed over a large lunar cliff, a sensor software glitch caused a discrepancy between its actual and expected altitude, and after its fuel ran out, it plummeted the last 5km to the Moon’s surface.
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