Japan’s Resilience Lander Set for Lunar Flyby Written 14 February 2025
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Developed by ispace, Hakuto-R Mission 2 is a robotic lunar landing mission launched 15 January 2025. | Credit: Artvill; Wikipedia; CC BY-SA 4.0
SPACE reports, “The second lunar lander from Japanese space exploration company ispace is ready for a flyby of the moon as part of its elongated moon landing journey. ispace’s Resilience lander launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, along with Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander. It is taking an energy-efficient, circuitous route to the moon, and only last week performed a crucial maneuver to raise its orbit and set up the lunar flyby.”
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