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CTOnews.com, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) Japan has abandoned plans to land its ultra-small probe OMOTENASHI on the moon, dashing the country's hopes of landing on the moon for the first time, the Japanese space agency said Tuesday.

The "OMOTENASHI" was expected to be the smallest probe to land on the moon. Japan's first lunar landing probe, the "OMOTENASHI", was launched on the 16th with a heavy rocket from the US Space launch system (SLS), but it malfunctioned and lost contact shortly after launch.

According to the World wide Web report, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) issued a communique on the 17th, saying that after the "hospitable" was separated from the SLS rocket, it rotated at an angular speed of 80 degrees per second for unknown reasons, which was beyond the attitude control range of the probe and could not charge the solar panels at the sun. Due to the lack of power, the ground command center has lost contact with the detector. Professor Shu Ming Hashimoto, head of the development team of the hospitable probe, said that the attitude of the detector was abnormal and the solar cells almost failed.

JAXA said that even if communications are restored, hospitable will not be able to slow down through solid rockets as originally planned to achieve a "semi-hard landing" at 180km / h on the lunar surface, but is close to a hard landing, and the integrity of the probe is worrying.

CTOnews.com learned that Japan has been interested in exploring the moon for a long time. In 2007, JAXA launched the Lunar Goddess, carrying 15 precision instruments to conduct a long and comprehensive analysis of lunar resources in orbit around the moon. But since then, the focus of Japan's space program has shifted to asteroid exploration, and the costly lunar landing has been put on hold. If hospitality is successful, Japan will become the fourth country in the world to successfully land on the moon, but that hope has been dashed.

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