Tokyo, June 6, 2025 (AFP) - Japanese company aborts Moon mission after losing contact with lander

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2025-06-06

Japan's hopes of achieving its first soft landing on the Moon by a private company were dashed Friday when the mission was aborted over lost contact with the Resilience spacecraft during a daunting final descent. Tokyo-based ispace had hoped to make history as only the third private firm -- and the first outside the United States -- to achieve a controlled touchdown on the lunar surface with its robotic lander. But it decided to end the mission a......

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