Japan’s Ispace Tries Again To Stick the Moon Landing
Ryo Ujiie, chief technology officer of ispace, points at a rover to be carried by the company’s lunar lander at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Tsukuba Space Center in September 2024.
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Hello, it’s Min Jeong Lee in Tokyo. Ispace, the Japanese company that failed when trying to land on the moon back in 2023, has put its engineers to work to ensure the next landing, scheduled for this week, has a happier ending. But first ...
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