Japan’s Moon landing dream crashes, again

India Today

The spacecraft was targeting to land on the Moon's Sea of Cold in the Northern Hemisphere when Mission Control in Tokyo lost communications and telemetry with the spacecraft.

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00:00Nobody blinked, nobody breathed.

00:06Japan's private lunar lander resilience was just 5 km from making history.

00:14And then, silence.

00:21In a dramatic descent streamed live around the world,

00:24the iSpace built lander looked flawless,

00:27slowing down, pitching up, entering its final approach to the moon.

00:31Then, in the most critical seconds, telemetry vanished.

00:37The live stream cut.

00:41And since then, nothing.

00:43This was iSpace's second failed landing attempt.

00:47Their first try in 2023 also ended in a crash.

00:52The lander was carrying two big things.

00:54A European built rover named Tenacious.

00:57And a tiny red art installation.

00:59A house of Swedish artist, Michael Jenberg.

01:03But here's the twist.

01:04iSpace isn't giving up.

01:06They've got 7 more missions planned through 2029.

01:09And they're even working with NASA.

01:11So is this a failure?

01:13Maybe.

01:14Maybe.

01:15Maybe.

01:16Maybe.

01:17Maybe.

01:18Maybe.

01:20Maybe.

01:21Maybe.

01:22Maybe.

01:23Maybe.

01:24Maybe.

01:25It's a little local research on many ways.

01:26So that's the history of Venus?

01:27Is it perfect?

01:28Maybe.

01:29Why are you illustrating?

01:31Bo him?

01:33Bo he is small,

01:34one of fianeras.

01:36And he bodies not like terrace.

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