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Update: "Japan's first commercial landing on the moon announced failure, ispace HAKUTO-R hard landing on the lunar surface."

CTOnews.com, April 26 (Xinhua) in December last year, a Japanese private lunar lander, Hakuto-R, carrying a United Arab Emirates lunar rover and other payloads, was launched from the Space Force Base at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and the lander developed by Japan's ispace company.

The lander was scheduled to land on the lunar surface on Tuesday, local time, but the company's engineers did not receive a response from the spacecraft within the expected time.

The ▲ 1 lunar lander is expected to land on the lunar surface at 01:40 Japan Standard time (CTOnews.com) on April 26, 2023, the HAKUTO-R mission control center in Tokyo has not been able to confirm the success of the lunar lander, according to an official announcement on the concept map of HAKUTO-R Mission 1's lunar landing. Ispace engineers and mission operations experts in the Mission Control Center are currently working to confirm the current status of the lander, and more information about the status of the lander will be released when available.

"so we have to assume that we can't make the landing," Takeshi Hakamada, chief executive of ispace, said on the live mission.

Hakuto-R is the first attempt by a Japanese-made commercial spacecraft to land on the moon, with the goal of landing in Atlas crater on the southeastern edge of the lunar Mare Frigoris. The most eye-catching payload is a 10-kilogram lunar rover called Rashid rover, the first lunar rover in the history of the United Arab Emirates.

If the landing is successful, Japan's ispace plans to launch another lander to the moon in 2024 and a third after 2025. After 2025, ispace's goal is to launch missions to the lunar surface twice a year, provide facilities for various payloads, and help develop lunar cutting-edge technology.

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