HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander Hard-lands On The Moon, Loses Communication With Earth

ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 (M1) Lunar Lander has attempted and failed to land softly on the Moon, in the Atlas Crater, on 25 April 2023, at about 1640 UTC. HAKUTO-R M1 is the first privately-led Japanese mission designed to land on the lunar surface. It lifted off the earth in December 2022, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket