The Hakuto-R lander is coming online after its Dec. 11 launch.
in April, pulling off the first-ever soft lunar touchdown for a Japanese spacecraft. The lander will then deploy a small rover called Rashid for the United Arab Emirates' space agency.
But ispace isn't looking that far ahead yet. This is a test flight, the first-ever mission for ispace, and the company is taking things slowly. The mission team is checking off boxes one by one — and Hakuto-R is hitting its marks so far. To date, the team has established communications with the lander and gotten it into a stable orientation with a consistent power supply. Team members also have"confirmation that there were no deficiencies in the lander's core systems," ispace wrote in anArtist's impression of ispace's Hakuto-R lander on the moon. The spacecraft is expected to touch down on Earth's natural satellite in April 2023.
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