A Japanese company is about to attempt a Moon landing

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A Japanese company is about to attempt a Moon landing

This lunar landing is at the vanguard of a number of private landing attempts.

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It's nearly time for a privately developed Japanese lunar lander to make a historic attempt to touch down on the Moon.

After spending five months in transit to reach the Moon—following a looping but fuel-efficient trajectory—the Hakuto-R mission will attempt to land on the Moon as early as Tuesday. If its mission operators decide to proceed, the landing attempt will begin as soon as 11:40 am ET on Tuesday (15:40 UTC). It will be livestreamed.

Read More: Ars Technica

 

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[Waspie_Dwarf]

Here is the live stream of the landing attempt:

 

[pellinore]

A bit of background in a nutshell:

Watch Japan’s ispace attempt moon landing with Hakuto-R lunar lander | New Scientist

[Ove]

probably crashed

[Waspie_Dwarf]

the 

 

[pellinore]

A great shame. I guessed there'd be problems when I saw they were attempting the landing in the afternoon. If they'd tried at night time at least they would be able to see the moon, which would have given them a fighting chance.

[Cho Jinn]

Where’s the evidence? A bunch of grainy video, proves nothing.

[Waspie_Dwarf]

27 minutes ago, Cho Jinn said:

Where’s the evidence?

The evidence of what exactly?

27 minutes ago, Cho Jinn said:

A bunch of grainy video, proves nothing.

No, but the telemetry, picked up multiple ground stations proves a lot.