China prepares to launch uncrewed Shenzhou as maiden launches slip for commercial launch providers
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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?
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
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
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
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.
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
At top left a context map shows the landing area at 82 degrees south. Top right shows the target area south of the crater Svedberg. The southern rim of Svedberg casts a shadow over a hollow which is never fully illuminated by the sun. The middle map shows this target area with 8 landing sites in better-lit areas. At lower right the preferred landing circle has a rover path into an often-shaded area where ices might be found. At bottom left is a closeup of the landing site.
#moon #ispace #hakuto
Finally, insurance for the flight was provided by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company. Names were not always used consistently, and sometimes they were combined to form ‘ispace's SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2’ or other variations. I will call it Resilience.
But first, ispace (through its European offshoot in Luxembourg) spent several years studying a mission near the south pole. The mission was called Polar Ice Explorer. This map shows its study area.
#moon #ispace #hakuto
We move on to the next lunar mission, launched on the same day (15 January 2025) as Firefly's BGM1... on the same rocket. It followed a slow, low energy, path to the Moon and arrived in orbit on 6 May. The landing attempt was on 5 June and it failed. What was it called? oh boy - hang on.
The private Japanese company involved is called ispace (no CAP). HAKUTO-R is the program, Venture Moon is the mission and Resilience is the spacecraft. Stay with me...
#moon #ispace #hakuto
