He was aiming to bring a lander to the moon after first attempt
The Japanese startup ISPACE INCA cannot become the country’s first private company to make a landing on the moon, after the first failed attempt in 2023. The same company from Tokyo reported it, explaining that its Lander Resilience impaired with the lunar surface after not having slowed down enough during the descent.
“We are determined to reach the US companies that have already accomplished the company as quickly as possible,” said CEO Takeshi Hakamada in a press conference. Resilience, which transported a rover and equipment to carry out experiments, took off by Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 15 as part of a mission to reach the northern hemisphere of the moon. According to the surveys provided, he attempted the landing at 4:17 on Friday in Japan (21:17 in Italy); However, after the landing sequence, the mission control center was unable to establish a communication with the spacecraft.
“At 8:00 on June 6, 2025, the mission controllers established that it is unlikely that communications with the Lander will be restored,” ISPace said in a press release. “And it was decided to conclude the mission”. Already the company’s first attempt to reach the northern hemisphere of the moon in April 2023, with another spacecraft had gone smoke. The intuitive Machines American company then became the first private company in the world to successfully send a space vehicle on the lunar surface in February 2024.
The Lunar Lander of the US company Firefly Aerospace Inc. launched in January aboard the same rocket as ISPA’s Resilience, touched the moon on March 2. To reach the surface, he followed a different path from that of the ISPA lander.
