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Japan’s ispace aims for December launch of second moon landing


Japanese space exploration company ispace will launch its second moon landing mission as early as in December, chief executive Takeshi Hakamada said on Thursday.

Japanese space exploration company ispace will launch its second moon landing mission as early as in December, chief executive Takeshi Hakamada said on Thursday. The “Hakuto-R Mission 2” will see ispace’s spacecraft delivered by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida and will attempt a lunar touchdown after four to five months of spaceflight, Hakamada said. The Tokyo-based startup aims to follow the success of U.S.-based Intuitive Machines, which in February made the world’s first private moon landing.

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