Japan’s ispace warns of delays in new lunar lander engine

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/japans-ispace-warns-of-delays-in-new-lunar-lander-engine/

China’s iSpace launch firm raises record $729 million for reusable rockets

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/chinas-ispace-launch-firm-raises-record-729-million-for-reusable-rockets/

ispace、2029年の「ミッション6」で月南極への着陸目指す　宇宙戦略基金に採択
https://sorae.info/space/20260116-ispace.html

#sorae #宇宙開発 #ispace #宇宙企業

ispace、JAXAと月域のデブリ対策で契約　ミッション終了後の廃棄方法など整理
https://sorae.info/space/20260114-ispace.html

#sorae #宇宙開発 #ispace #月面 #民間宇宙

ispaceがサウジアラビアに新拠点を設立へ　中東での月探査事業を本格化
https://sorae.info/space/20260112-ispace-saudi-arabia.html

#sorae #宇宙開発 #ispace #宇宙企業

Race to mine the Moon accelerates as Interlune targets 2029 pilot project. The U.S. company hopes to launch a mission next year to harvest helium3.
https://www.news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13797
#nasa #esa #spacex #space #moon #cosmos #astronomy #science #research #technology #interlune #astrobotic #vermeer #ispace

China prepares to launch uncrewed Shenzhou as maiden launches slip for commercial launch providers

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#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Ceres-1 #ChangZheng11H #Chang'e-6 #Chang'e-7 #GalacticEnergy #iSpace #Lijian-2 #Shenzhou #Shenzhou20 #Shenzhou22 #Shenzhou-21 #SpacePioneer #Tianlong-3 #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/264276/

Ángel Milagro, ingeniero español al frente de las misiones lunares de Ispace en Japón

@iabot ¿Cómo logra Ángel Milagro coordinar misiones lunares desde Alfaro y qué desafíos enfrenta Ispace para validar sensores en condiciones terrestres extremas?

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ispaceがインドの宇宙開発スタートアップと覚書　推進剤補給インターフェイスを搭載へ
https://sorae.info/space/20251027-ispace-orbitaid.html

#sorae #宇宙開発 #ispace #民間宇宙

ispaceが次世代小型探査車の開発巡りトヨタ自動車と契約締結　トヨタが技術支援へ
https://sorae.info/space/20251023-ispace-toyota.html

#sorae #宇宙開発 #ispace #民間宇宙

ispace、台湾国家宇宙センターとの月面輸送契約を締結。総額約11.7億円で2028年に打ち上げ予定

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://smart-mobility.jp/_ct/17795242

ispace、新型月着陸機の環境試験を実施　フライトモデルは2028年打ち上げ予定
https://sorae.info/space/20251003-ispace.html

#sorae #宇宙開発 #ispace #民間宇宙

Inside ispace Europe and the race to explore the moon

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/inside-ispace-europe-and-the-race-to-explore-the-moon/

📚 Japanische Mondmission Hakuto-R ist erneut gescheitert.

• 🚀 Absturz im Mare Frigoris.
• 🇯🇵 Zweiter Fehlschlag für ispace.
• 🌑 Mission bei zunehmendem Mond gescheitert.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/japanische-mondmission-gescheitert-hakuto-r-abgesturzt-gruende-ursachen-100.html

#HakutoR #Mondmission #ispace #Japan #Raumfahrt

Bright spots like those are seen around some lunar landers after a liftoff - Apollo 11 and Luna 24 are examples. But these are scattered along a line extending 2000 m northeast, not all close to the lander (and of course, no liftoff...). They might be bits of thermal blanket or wrapping, but why are they spread out like that? I have not seen any explanation yet.
#moon #ispace #hakuto

This image starts with 3 views of the Resilience impact site. A is OHRC before the impact. B is OHRC after the impact. C is LRO's Narrow Angle Camera after impact. Usually LRO stands out as a marvellous camera but here OHRC takes the prize. LRO doesn't always look this bad - it might have had some temporary issue like overheating. D is a map showing the small bright debris patches first identified by Shan Subramanian.
#moon #ispace #hakuto

That site was found in OHRC images by Shan Subramanian:

https://twitter.com/Ramanean/status/1935917961929252891

My map in the last post shows debris fragments. How do we know that's what they are? Because OHRC imaged the site before and after the landing (shown in one of Shan's tweets). There are more of them - we will see more about this tomorrow. And we will be seeing more from this amazing camera later.
#moon #ispace #hakuto

This set of maps zooms in to the Resilience impact site. Map B includes a box showing the area mapped by the LRO imaging team. Map C shows two targets, one from coordinates released in September 2024, the second illustrated in a video just before the landing. The actual impact was only just outside the second target. Map D uses an image from Chandrayaan 2's Orbiter High Resolution Camera, the best camera in lunar orbit today (sorry, LRO).
#moon #ispace #hakuto

These are the 4 Resilience sites. I expect the site selection process will be published eventually (Mission 1's was). Meanwhile this is what we have. The top map shows all 4 sites, and below each one is enlarged. The prime site was the one used for the mission. If successful this would have been the northernmost landing on the Moon. Alas, it crashed during final approach to the prime site. It would have deployed a rover called Tenacious.
#moon #ispace #hakuto

Back to Resilience, a private Japanese mission by ispace. The company grew out of one of the Google Lunar X Prize teams, Hakuto, which itself evolved from one of the early GLXP teams, White Label Space. GLXP was complicated and its history might show up here one day.

ispace's early missions were called Hakuto-R (R for Reboot). The first crashed in Atlas crater in April 2023. Resilience was targeted for Mare Frigoris at 60 north. Where were the sites?
#moon #ispace #hakuto