FOX News
By Peter Aitken
April 27, 2023
China and Japan have addressed mysterious circumstances around disappearing space equipment, including a lunar lander that would have completed Japan’s potential first successful moon landing.
“It has been determined that there is a high probability that the lander eventually made a hard landing on the moon’s surface,” Takeshi Hakamanda, founder and CEO of Japanese spaceflight company Ispace, said of the venture.
The company clarified shortly after that engineers had observed that the remaining propellant in the Hakuto-R spacecraft may have been “at the lower threshold and shortly afterward the descent speed rapidly increased,” the New York Times reported.