Japan's private probe Hakuto-R attempts to land on the moon fails. According to Space. com, it was supposed to be the first private and the first Japanese device to land on the Earth's satellite..

But that did not happen. ispace lost contact with the spacecraft shortly before it was supposed to land softly on the lunar surface..

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“So we have to assume that we weren’t able to complete the landing on the lunar surface,” ispace founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada said during the landing webcast..

The company continued to attempt to contact the device, but to no avail.. As a result, she suggested that the lunar rover made a hard landing on the moon..

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The failed launch attempt was preceded by nearly a decade of ispace.

From 2013 to 2018, the company developed the White Rabbit as part of NASA's Lunar X Prize project, which offered $20 million to the first private company to land on the moon.. The project ended without a winner, but ispace continued to work on its device.

The Hakuto-R was launched last December on SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch vehicle.. It entered lunar orbit on March 20.

Recall that on the night of March 26, Sweden launched a research rocket that accidentally fell in Norway..