{"id":30165,"date":"2025-06-05T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/private-japanese-lunar-lander-closing-in-on-unexplored-top-of-the-moon-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:36:19","slug":"private-japanese-lunar-lander-closing-in-on-unexplored-top-of-the-moon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/private-japanese-lunar-lander-closing-in-on-unexplored-top-of-the-moon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Japanese lunar lander closing in on unexplored top of the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A private lunar lander from Japan is closing in on the moon, aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini rover. <\/p>\n<p>The moon landing attempt by Tokyo-based company ispace on Friday Japan time is the latest entry in the rapidly expanding commercial lunar rush.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/05\/88071e09-a4c6-48aa-b537-7c79042f08c0\/thumbnail\/620x511\/f069f40e682362bab9f1a5d3b611b416\/ap25155518072601.jpg?v=bf13c71e7181bf2db128edf777c4aecf#\" alt=\"Japan-Moon Landing \" height=\"511\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/05\/88071e09-a4c6-48aa-b537-7c79042f08c0\/thumbnail\/620x511\/f069f40e682362bab9f1a5d3b611b416\/ap25155518072601.jpg?v=bf13c71e7181bf2db128edf777c4aecf 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/05\/88071e09-a4c6-48aa-b537-7c79042f08c0\/thumbnail\/1240x1022\/896bdac630c3916ac21907681c4838ad\/ap25155518072601.jpg?v=bf13c71e7181bf2db128edf777c4aecf 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">This image provided by ispace, inc. shows the Resilience lander circling the moon on June 4, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                ispace, inc. via AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The encore comes two years after the company&#8217;s first moonshot <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/historic-japanese-moon-landing-attempt-appears-failed-after-ispace-craft-loses-contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">ended in a crash landing<\/a><\/span>, giving rise to the name Resilience for its successor lander. Resilience holds a rover with a shovel to gather lunar dirt as well as a Swedish artist&#8217;s toy-size red house that will be lowered onto the moon&#8217;s dusty surface. <\/p>\n<p>Long the province of governments, the moon became a target of private outfits in 2019, with more flops than wins along the way. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/moon-landers-2-privately-built-falcon-9-rocket\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Launched in January from Florida<\/a><\/span> on a long, roundabout journey, Resilience entered lunar orbit last month. It shared a SpaceX ride with Firefly Aerospace&#8217;s Blue Ghost, which reached the moon faster and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/texas-company-firefly-aerospace-blue-ghost-commercial-moon-landing\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">became the first private entity to successfully land there<\/a><\/span> in March.  <\/p>\n<p>Another U.S. company, Intuitive Machines, arrived at the moon a few days after Firefly. But the tall, spindly lander face-planted in a crater near the moon&#8217;s south pole and was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/athena-moon-lander-tips-over-intuitive-machines-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">declared dead within hours<\/a><\/span>.  <\/p>\n<p>Resilience is targeting the top of the moon, a less forbidding place than the shadowy bottom. The ispace team chose a flat area with few boulders in Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold, a long and narrow region full of craters and ancient lava flows that stretches across the near side&#8217;s northern tier. <\/p>\n<p>Once settled with power and communication flowing, the 7.5-foot Resilience will lower the piggybacking rover onto the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/15\/ecf788b5-cb01-49b5-b795-0d7a9c72c1ed\/thumbnail\/620x349\/ba8f02d92b382f9687dee1376d6c6fd7\/sat-and-rover.jpg?v=bf13c71e7181bf2db128edf777c4aecf#\" alt=\"sat-and-rover.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/15\/ecf788b5-cb01-49b5-b795-0d7a9c72c1ed\/thumbnail\/620x349\/ba8f02d92b382f9687dee1376d6c6fd7\/sat-and-rover.jpg?v=bf13c71e7181bf2db128edf777c4aecf 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/15\/ecf788b5-cb01-49b5-b795-0d7a9c72c1ed\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/90f84077733b08de3524415185a63be3\/sat-and-rover.jpg?v=bf13c71e7181bf2db128edf777c4aecf 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A notional view of ispace&#8217;s Resilience lander and the microrover Tenacious it is carrying to the moon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                ispace<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic with four wheels, ispace&#8217;s European-built rover &#8211; named Tenacious &#8211; sports a high-definition camera to scout out the area and a shovel to scoop up some lunar dirt for NASA. <\/p>\n<p>The rover, weighing just 11 pounds, will stick close to the lander, going in circles at a speed of less than one inch per second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got experiments that I think are going to help with the establishment of lunar infrastructure that will eventually, hopefully lead to a permanent, significant human presence on the moon,&#8221; said Ron Garan, a former space shuttle astronaut and CEO of ispace USA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re doing an electrolysis experiment. We&#8217;re doing a food production experiment. We also have some art installations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A model of a Swedish house will be carried away from the lander on the rover, which will &#8220;set it down on the lunar surface,&#8221; Garan said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to photograph it, and it&#8217;s a really exciting artistic endeavor as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Takeshi Hakamada, CEO and founder of ispace, considers the latest moonshot &#8220;merely a steppingstone,&#8221; with its next, much bigger lander launching by 2027 with NASA involvement, and even more to follow.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not trying to corner the market. We&#8217;re trying to build the market,&#8221; Jeremy Fix, chief engineer for ispace&#8217;s U.S. subsidiary, said at a conference last month. &#8220;It&#8217;s a huge market, a huge potential.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Fix noted that ispace, like other businesses, does not have &#8220;infinite funds&#8221; and cannot afford repeated failures. While not divulging the cost of the current mission, company officials said it&#8217;s less than the first one, which exceeded $100 million. <\/p>\n<p>Two other U.S. companies are aiming for moon landings by year&#8217;s end: Jeff Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin and Astrobotic Technology. Astrobotic&#8217;s first lunar lander missed the moon altogether in 2024 and came crashing back through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p>For decades, governments competed to get to the moon. Only five countries have pulled off successful robotic lunar landings: Russia, the U.S., China, India and Japan. Of those, only the U.S. has landed people on the moon: 12 NASA astronauts from 1969 through 1972. <\/p>\n<p>NASA expects to send four astronauts around the moon next year. That would be followed a year or more later by the first lunar landing by a crew in more than a half-century, with SpaceX&#8217;s Starship providing the lift from lunar orbit all the way down to the surface. 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