Key Points
In what could be a historic attempt, Tokyos ispace will attempt to land its spacecraft on the surface of the Moon on Tuesday..
The Japanese company is attempting a rare feat as no other private company has landed a probe on the lunar surface..
The flight controllers of Hakuto will direct the craft to descend from an altitude of about 100 kilometers above the surface of the moon onto the lunar regolith...
Through careful testing and analysis, the ispace engineering team has prepared for this and has led the lander through the longest periods of eclipse successfully," Sasha Ivan Hurovitz, Spacecraft Avionics Systems Engineer, said in a statement...
The Japanese company iSpace, founded in 2010, aims to provide commercial transportation to the moon with a wider mission to ultimately incorporate the moon into the Earth's economy...
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