The reason for the failure of the Japanese startup iSpace Corporation's (ispace) moon landing mission Hakuto R has been revealed.

 

The reason for the failure of the Japanese startup iSpace Corporation's (ispace) moon landing mission Hakuto R has been revealed.

Explaining the reasons for the failure of the moon landing mission last month, the company says that the spacecraft ran out of fuel due to an altitude miscalculation.

Hakuto R1, a mission sent by Tokyo-based company iSpace, was supposed to make the first commercial soft landing on the surface of the moon, but the company lost contact with the spacecraft.

The failure of the mission has dealt another blow to Japan's space program. Earlier, Japan had to destroy its H3 rocket in space in March and its solid fuel Epsilon rocket also failed to launch in October. As NASA shared images of the debris from the Hakuto r landing site last week, iSpace said that we need to get as much information as possible through the next two missions of the Improvement Locker to achieve stable commercialization goals in the future. will

According to iSpace's investigation, the spacecraft was passing through the lunar cliff, when one of its sensors failed, due to this failure, the vehicle failed to understand the expected and actual height of the cliff, climbing up. Eventually, it ran out of fuel and the spacecraft plummeted to the surface of the moon from an altitude of at least five kilometers.

iSpace said it will launch its next mission to land on the moon in 2024.