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    Japan’s ispace fails again: Resilience lander crashes on moon

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    1. Happy_Weed on

      Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed moon lander likely crashed onto the lunar surface during its touchdown attempt on Friday, marking another failure two years after an unsuccessful inaugural mission.

    2. quickblur on

      Man the moon is just eating these landers lately. Makes the achievements of the 1960s and 1970s even more impressive.

    3. brobeans2222 on

      Real question for people smarter than me. We have a rover on Mars, why is it so hard to get to the moon?

    4. Significant-Ant-2487 on

      Much hyped, then fails. Not of much interest except to the company involved and its investors, really.

      These private ventures into space are of little importance. Landing small probes on the Moon and the inner planets was technology in development sixty years ago. This ispace thing carried a microwave oven sized primitive rover and a little toy Swiss cottage(?). Trivial stuff.

    6. Wretched_Heart on

      Maybe a little off topic but it makes me sad that the name of the game is competition rather than collaboration. Country vs country, company vs company.

      This tech was unlocked 60 years ago. Imagine where we’d be if space was a collaborative effort rather than a race.

    7. Astronut325 on

      This obsessive attitude to do these kinds of things on a budget that is a fraction of what it took to the same things in the 60s and 70s is going to continue to produce a long line of failures.