A Japanese private spaceflight company showed off its moon lander under construction for a new moon landing mission in 2024.
A new video from ispace shows the Mission 2 lander that will house a micro rover for launch in the winter of 2024, if all goes according to plan.
“Our engineers have been working on the Resilience lunar lander’s propulsion system, main body and electrical systems, among others,” officials with ispace wrote on X, formerly Twitter.This will be ispace’s second attempt at a moon landing following a navigation error that led to a crash on its first attempt in 2023.
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The new mission, if it were to go to the surface, would host a microrover. It measures only 26 centimeters (10. 24 inches) tall, 31. 5 cm (12. 4 inches) wide, and 54 cm (21. 26 inches) long, and has a mass of about 11 pounds (5 kilograms). It will also bring a high-definition camera up front to take pictures of lunar soil as it takes samples.
Watch the progression of Mission 2 in this video!Our engineers worked on the propulsion system, main body, and electrical systems of the #RESILIENCE lunar lander, among other things. #ispace #lunarquest #Diciembre HAKUTO_R pic. twitter. com/BJ51TuUEsPD28, 2023
This will be ispace’s second lunar landing after a navigation error that led to an accident on the first in 2023.
The first lunar mission, the Hakuto-R lander, launched in December 2022, failed in April. The spacecraft’s onboard computer misjudged the altitude, resulting in a crash landing.
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Mission 2 is close to the Hakuto-R lander, which weighed about 2,200 pounds (1,000 kg). But the new project has software and other tweaks based on what happened on Mission 1, ispace said.
Resilience, the lander’s name, aligns with the company’s motto “Never give up the lunar quest. “Mission 2 will be followed by Mission 3, which is scheduled to launch in 2026. This project will use the Apex 1. 0 lunar lander, a larger lander with a projected payload. 1,100 lbs (500 kg).
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