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Private Japanese moon lander targeting April 25 for historic touchdown try

Japan's Hakuto-R spacecraft is preparing to make a historic lunar landing attempt on April 25.

Space · Apr 12, 2023

Private Japanese moon lander sends home stunning image from lunar orbit

The Hakuto-R spacecraft operated by the Japanese company ispace snapped the image of a sunlit section of the moon following its arrival in lunar orbit on March 20.

Space · Mar 28, 2023

Space firm's lunar lander enters moon's orbit

Tokyo-based Ispace Inc. said Tuesday that its moon lander had entered orbit around the moon.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Mar 23, 2023

A Japanese company has fired a rocket carrying a lunar rover to the moon

A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates' first lunar rover and a toylike robot from Japan.

WEKU · Dec 11, 2022

Japanese company's lander rockets toward moon with UAE rover

A Tokyo company is aiming for the moon with its own private lander

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2022

Japanese Company’s Lander Rockets toward Moon with UAE Rover

A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates’ first lunar rover and a toylike robot from Japan that’s designed to roll around up there in the gray dust. It will take nearly five months…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 11, 2022

SpaceX overnight launch on tap to send private lander, NASA ice surveyor to moon

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX is back at the launch pad for another shot to send a couple of moonbound customers into space from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Orlando Sentinel · Dec 10, 2022

HAKUTO-R Mission 1: Mission details and how to watch the groundbreaking mission

If successful, iSpace will be the first company to successfully land a vehicle on the Moon.

Inverse · Dec 9, 2022

The coming Moon economy

NASA's most recent Moon mission is stoking the flames of a burgeoning lunar economy.

Axios · Nov 22, 2022