Have you raised on the lunar surface or have exploded during this dangerous maneuver? The uncertainties around a Japanese private investigation were on the highest Thursday, shortly after their scheduled attempt to increase.
The machine, designated resilience and developed by the Japanese company Ispace, had to land around 7:17 pm GMT.
But according to the live broadcast of the Control Center in Tokyo, his descent did not come out as planned.
“We have not been able to confirm (the establishment), but the members of the mission control center will continue to try to contact the investigation,” commentators said about 15 minutes after the theoretical increase time.
The scientists, visibly tense, kept their eyes spun on their control screens.
Moving, an extremely complex maneuver
Two years ago, the company had already led a first attempt in the establishment that had ended in an accident. If I was successful on Thursday night, it would have become the first non -American company to succeed in such a technical feat.
The sliding maneuvers are extremely complex, due in particular to the absence of an atmosphere, which makes the parachutes do not work. The devices must operate their descent using propellants, all with extreme precision.
“We have confidence in our preparations,” said Ispace Takeshi Hakamada CEO last week, ensuring that the company “took advantage of the experience acquired during mission 1 and the current trip to the moon.”
To date, only two American companies, intuitive and aerospace machines of Firefly, have managed to place machines on the unleashed lunar surface, two out of three without having Aluni correctly, which affected its operation from then on.
Before them, only a handful of countries, starting with the Soviet Union in 1966, had succeeded. In January 2024, Japan joined this club very closed as it succeeded in establishing a machine from the Japanese space agency, Jaxa.
The probe released at the beginning of the year
More and more private companies seek to offer more frequent and less expensive space exploration opportunities than those carried out by several governments.
Resilience investigation had been launched in January from the United States at the same time as the blue ghost of the American spatial spatial robot of Firefly Aerospace, but the two devices did not follow the same trajectory and, therefore, did not take the same time to reach the natural satellite of the earth. Blue Ghost had Aluni without incident in early March.
Japanese research carries in particular a rover, scientific instruments developed by other companies and a house model produced by a Swedish artist, Mikael Genberg.
The objective shown by ISPACE is to perform, once the device in the star, several technological demonstrations. At the same time, another new Japanese company, Space One, tries to become the country’s first private company to put an orbit satellite.
During his last attempt, in December, the rocket took off, but the company had to interrupt the mission after the machine was seen losing altitude spinning.
Source: BFM TV
