ispace (Hakuto-R) Mission 1, Japanese private lunar mission |
ispace (Hakuto-R) Mission 1, Japanese private lunar mission |
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ispace (they don't capitalize the 'i') is a Japanese company which was associated with the old Google Lunar X Prize team Hakuto, which evolved from the original White Label Space GLXP team. It raised substantial funding and carried on after the demise of GLXP. The useful part of their website is:
https://ispace-inc.com/project/ They have a multi-mission project called HAKUTO-R (R for 'reboot', a revival of the GLXP team) and the first lander is built, tested and about to be shipped to Florida for a SpaceX launch in mid-November. It carries a rover called Rashid from the UAE and contributions from Canada as well as a Japanese rover. See this press release: https://ispace-inc.com/news/?p=2370 ispace's US subsidiary is associated with the Draper CLPS mission to Schrodinger basin, recently awarded, which will utilize a new lander from ispace larger than the Mission 1 lander. The landing site was said to be in Lacus Somniorum north of Mare Serenitatis, but recent reports say it has moved to Atlas crater nearby - whether in or near the crater I don't know. Launch is set for mid-November. -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Not north of the crater as the previous analysis suggested. With all due respect to AMSAT, I'm not seeing any error bars on their analysis, I'm not sure where they got the orbit data, I don't know what coordinate system they're using, there are some assumptions made, etc, so I wouldn't have assigned very high confidence to their result in the first place. They do say their result assumes a vertical pitch angle and note "The landing could also have been in Atlas crater but at a pitch angle of -86.7° rather than -90° which is vertical down." -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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That's right. Scott Tilley also expressed reservations about the analysis:
https://twitter.com/coastal8049/status/1660127118087557126 Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Analysis of the failure has been released
As usual for the last few (non-China) landings, a software issue... |
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