Japanese company ispace attempted to land its Resilience spacecraft on the moon today (June 5) at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1917 GMT). During the descent contact was lost with the spacecraft and its fate is unclear.
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00:00Yeah, so from here on, we will bring you live commentary from Hitachi-san alongside of our leading landing simulation footage.
00:11So where are we?
00:13So in terms of phase, we're already in the third phase, the breaking burn phase, and 1,800 km per hour.
00:25It was, you know, 5,000 km per hour, and then it's drastically less.
00:30And now we're 10 km in altitude, and it looks quite a distance from the surface, but it actually, the deceleration is really fast.
00:47So after this becomes less than 10 km, it's going to be even faster, how deceleration happens.
00:57This is on par with our plan and landing site.
01:03We're only 30 km or 40 km away from the landing site, so we're very, very close already.
01:10Thank you very much for the explanation.
01:13And then those at the venue, those online, time to touchdown on the screen, even if this shows, you know, zero, and even altitude shows, you know, zero.
01:25We don't know if, you know, has successfully landed.
01:31You know, it would look, you know, that successfully landed on the simulation, but we need to verify the state of the lander and MCC, and we need to wait for the official announcement.
01:42So you might get excited, you know, as soon as you see zero, number zero, but it'll be great, and if you can wait, we will hear, you know, the live announcement, you know, over the speaker, and let's celebrate, you know, when we hear the official announcement.
01:56So this is going to be a very quiet moment, you know, waiting for the very, very special moment, but, well, you see this, you know, altitude is only 5 km, and the speed is much less.
02:14It's like airplane speed?
02:18Yes, yes.
02:18So 500 km per hour is, yeah, the deceleration has been very rapidly happening.
02:30It's less than 4 km.
02:32All the thrusters are working perfectly, is how I see on the screen.
02:40So now it's less than 400 km per hour, and it's only 3 km in altitude.
02:45This is a bullet train kind of speed, so you can probably, you know, imagine what it's like.
02:52This is, everything is, you know, working out great.
02:55The lander is going to start changing the attitude.
03:00Yes.
03:02Now you're seeing this, you know, sideways, but it's going to be, you know, going to be standing horizontally.
03:09And this is the simulation.
03:11So we're almost, you know, right above the landing site.
03:18Thank you very much.
03:20And these two lines, the yellow line is showing where the sun is.
03:26The white line is indicating, you know, the direction of the landing site.
03:31Telemetry would have a moment where we can't see the numbers, but that's just, you know, the communication, telecommunication.
03:50The pitching app, pitch app, no, phase, so we are moving into the phase four.
03:55So telemetry figures are not coming, but we are continuously getting this announcement from MCC.
04:07I think it's working.
04:09So it's less than a minute until the scheduled landing time.
04:27So let's see how the MCC members are.
04:33Less than a minute away.
04:36Very, very nerve-wracking moment.
04:45Everyone's super concentrated.
04:48Looking at the lander on the screen.
04:51And it's white patiently.
04:53It's already 4.17.
04:55The scheduled landing.
04:57And we need to check the telemetry.
04:59This is, you know, where we need to be patient and wait for just a while.
05:14We already passed the landing scheduled time.
05:20And we're still verifying the state, confirming how it is on the surface.
05:27I can see the nerve, nervous luck, on everyone's face.
05:56And there's no application in MCC.
06:02They're confirming the communication with the resilience lander.
06:07It might take some time before the confirmation.
06:12Be great, if you can bear with us.
06:15We're still aware
06:33in the process of confirmation
06:35and verification.
06:45We're still in the process of confirming checking MCC a room is filled with members more crowded
07:14than its normal date.
07:21So it can't take some more time, right?
07:24That's the sound.
07:33I think we need some time before sharing the status to people in the venue
07:41and those who are watching online.
07:46I know that a lot of you have joined us in a very extreme time of the day.
07:54And how's the situation?
07:59We haven't been able to confirm, but MCC members will continuously attempt to communicate with
08:08the lander.
08:09And we will be reporting you the latest date in the media interviewing that's scheduled
08:18in a few hours.
08:20So we need to never quit the lunar quest as the spirit would like to keep in finishing this
