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HAKUTO-R Mission 2 (Resilience) lander crashes on second lunar landing attempt

S4 · 06/05
2025 · ~19:17 UTC · ispace · Mare Frigoris, Moon

Record

Companyispace
Categoryspace robotics
Typemission-loss
Date06/05
2025
Time of day~19:17 UTC
LocationMare Frigoris, Moon
SeverityS4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding)
Scale1 lander, total loss
Confidencehigh
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceNASA

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ispace's second lunar lander, Resilience, lost communication about 90 seconds before its planned touchdown and crashed on the Moon; NASA's LRO later imaged the impact site.

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