The RESILIENCE module, owned by the private Japanese company ispace, crashed during its lunar landing on June 5 at around 22:17 p.m. Kyiv time. The module's crew lost contact with it before landing, but preliminary data indicates that the spacecraft's rangefinder malfunctioned, causing it to collide with the moon's surface at a much higher than normal speed.
This is the company's second failed attempt to land a module on the Moon, but during a press conference, ispace representatives said they would continue the program to explore the satellite. informed space.com.
A failure of the rangefinder, which helped the spacecraft determine the distance to the lunar surface, also caused the failure of ispace's first spacecraft, Hakuto-R. As last time, the RESILIENCE spacecraft team lost contact with the spacecraft during its automated landing on the satellite.
According to scientists' calculations, the landing occurred at such a speed that the spacecraft simply crashed into the lunar surface in the Sea of Cold in the northern hemisphere. Because of this, it was unable to contact Earth and, most likely, did not have time to release the European Space Agency's Tenacious lunar rover onto the surface of the satellite.
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