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2025-11-21

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



















#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
newsbeep.com/264276/

vegetablesoup at KillBaitvegetablesoup@killbait.com
2025-10-29

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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2025-10-27

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
sorae.info/space/20251027-ispa

#sorae #宇宙開発 #ispace #民間宇宙

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2025-10-23

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
sorae.info/space/20251023-ispa

#sorae #宇宙開発 #ispace #民間宇宙

スマートモビリティJPsmart-mobility.jp@web.brid.gy
2025-10-09

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

fed.brid.gy/r/https://smart-mo

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2025-10-03

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
sorae.info/space/20251003-ispa

#sorae #宇宙開発 #ispace #民間宇宙

2025-09-02

📚 Japanische Mondmission Hakuto-R ist erneut gescheitert.

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

deutschlandfunk.de/japanische-

#HakutoR #Mondmission #ispace #Japan #Raumfahrt

Phil StookePhilStooke
2025-08-22

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.

Phil StookePhilStooke
2025-08-22

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.

Three images show the Resilience impact site. Two are from Chandrayaan 2's OHRC instrument before and after the impact. The third is from LRO and is not as detailed. The rest of the image shows a group of small bright spots which were not there before the impact but are after impact. They must be debris from the lander, but they are not scattered around the lander symmetrically, they form a trail extending about 2 km to the northeast. I don't know how they formed.
Phil StookePhilStooke
2025-08-21

That site was found in OHRC images by Shan Subramanian:

twitter.com/Ramanean/status/19

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.

Phil StookePhilStooke
2025-08-21

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).

A set of 4 maps zooming in to the Resilience impact site. The third map shows two targets for Resilience. One was given as coordinates in 2024. The other was illustrated in a video just before landing. The impact site is shown in the last map, an image from the high resolution camera on Chandrayaan 2.
Phil StookePhilStooke
2025-08-20

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.

Five maps show the potential landing sites for ispace's Resilience lander. The top map shows Mare Frigoris with 4 sites, a prime site at right and three backup sites. Below that all four sites are mapped in more detail.
Phil StookePhilStooke
2025-08-20

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?

Phil StookePhilStooke
2025-08-19

But this polar mission study will have to wait for some future implementation. ispace's second mission (the first crashed in Atlas crater in 2023) went to Mare Frigoris in the northern mid-latitudes. Tomorrow we will look at that site.

Phil StookePhilStooke
2025-08-19

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.

Phil StookePhilStooke
2025-08-19

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.

Five maps show a study area for a polar mission by ispace Europe. At top left a context map shows the landing area northwest of Amundsen at 82 degrees south. Top right zooms in to a flat area south of the crater Svedberg. The south rim of Svedberg casts a shadow over a hollow which is never fully lit by the sun. In the middle a map shows this shadow area with 8 landing sites in illuminated areas. At lower right a landing circle is illustrated with a rover path into an often-shaded area where ices might be found. At bottom left is a closer view of the landing site.
Phil StookePhilStooke
2025-08-19

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...

ネコビデオ ビジュアル ソリューションズnvslive@mstdn.jp
2025-07-07

RT @ispace_HAKUTO_R: 本日は🎋七夕ですね。
次こそは、月面着陸達成へ。
ispaceは、失敗を糧に、歩みを止めず後続ミッションにむけた挑戦を続けていきます。
#七夕2025 #七夕の願い事 #七夕の日 #月面着陸 #再起 #NQLQ #ispace #HAK

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2025-06-25

ispace、軟着陸に失敗した月着陸機「レジリエンス」に関する報告会を開催
sorae.info/space/20250625-ispa

#sorae #宇宙開発 #HAKUTO_R #ispace #月探査 #民間宇宙

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