{"id":1938967,"date":"2023-05-26T16:06:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T20:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lunar-lander-crashes-on-surface-of-the-moon-after-radical-last-minute-change\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T16:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T20:32:40","slug":"lunar-lander-crashes-on-surface-of-the-moon-after-radical-last-minute-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lunar-lander-crashes-on-surface-of-the-moon-after-radical-last-minute-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon lander crashes due to sudden change."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flunar-lander-crashes-on-surface-of-the-moon-after-radical-last-minute-change%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1938967&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Private Japanese Moon Lander Crashes on Lunar Surface<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>A private Japanese moon lander went into free-fall while trying to land on the lunar surface, company officials said Friday, blaming a software issue and a last-minute switch in the touchdown location.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The spacecraft belonging to the company ispace was originally supposed to land in a flat plain, but the target was changed to a crater before December\u2019s launch. Unfortunately, the crater\u2019s <a title=\"Moon lander crashes due to sudden change.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lunar-lander-crashes-on-surface-of-the-moon-after-radical-last-minute-change\/\">steep cliff confused<\/a> the onboard software, causing the 7-foot spacecraft to go into a free-fall from less than 3 miles up, slamming into the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<h3>Lessons Learned and Future Attempts<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the setback, CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada said the company is still on track to attempt another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-new-moon-mission-underway-rocket-carrying-middle-eastern-rover-launches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moon landing<\/a> in 2024, and that all the lessons learned will be incorporated into the next try. A third landing attempt is planned for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, ispace would have been the first <a title=\"Twitter permanently bans President Trump\u2019s account\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-permanently-bans-president-trumps-account\/\">private company<\/a> to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon. Currently, only three governments have achieved that: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/russia-china-team-announce-big-plans-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/artemis-moon-mission-scrubbed-launchpad-officials-notice-something-terribly-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nasa-chief-sounds-alarm-chinese-moon-base-may-soon-heads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a>. An Israeli nonprofit tried in 2019, but its attempt also ended in a crash landing.<\/p>\n<h3>Losses and Insurance<\/h3>\n<p>Named Hakuto, Japanese for white rabbit, the spacecraft and its experiments were insured, according to Hakamada. Unfortunately, the United Arab Emirates had a <a title=\"First Private Company Attempting Moon Landing Loses Contact With Spacecraft Moments Before Touchdown\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-private-company-attempting-moon-landing-loses-contact-with-spacecraft-moments-before-touchdown\/\">mini lunar rover<\/a> on board that was lost in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rocky area, causing a software malfunction and resulting in the lander&#8217;s free-fall. The incident highlights the challenges of private space exploration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1938968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Moon lander crashes due to sudden change.","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[5103,9641,10699,7876,8041],"class_list":["post-1938967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-change","tag-crashes","tag-lander","tag-moon","tag-sudden"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Moon lander crashes due to sudden change.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}