Japanese startup ispace is preparing to land its Hakuto-R Mission 1 spacecraft on the moon early on Wednesday, in what would be the world's first lunar landing by a private company if it succeeds
Officials of ispace Inc's HAKUTO-R mission look at live broadcasting of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for ispace at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Tokyo, Japan December 11, 2022. Mandatory credit Kyodo via REUTERSis preparing to land its Hakuto-R Mission 1 spacecraft on the moon early on Wednesday, in what would be the world's first lunar landing by a private company if it succeeds.
The M1 lander is set to touch down around 1:40 a.m. Japan time after taking off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a SpaceX rocket in December. Success would mark a welcome reversal from the recent setbacks Japan has faced in space technology, where it has big of building a domestic industry, including a goal of sending Japanese astronauts to the moon by the late 2020s.
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