Japanese spacecraft crashes in attempt to land on the moon

A Japanese company’s spacecraft apparently crashes while attempting to land on the moon Wednesday, April 26, 2023, losing contact moments before touchdown and sending flight controllers scrambling to figure out what happened. More than six hours after communication ceased, Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace, announced that the landing likely failed. It was a disappointing setback for ispace, which after a 4 1/2-month mission had been on the verge of doing what only three countries have done: successfully land a spacecraft on the moon.

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