A private lunar lander from Japan crashed into the moon
Japanese space exploration company ispace’s lunar probe ‘Resilience’ crashed two years after it had been launched, officials said. The mission’s communications ceased less than two minutes before it was scheduled to land on the moon with a mini rover. However, ispace stated that they are “confident” that “Resilience” will continue its mission to collect imagery, location data and lunar sand.
India and Russia have crashed on the moon
India and China on Thursday successfully landed their lunar lander, Luna-25, on the Moon’s south pole. The spacecraft will help India and China to better understand permanently shadowed lunar craters that contain water deposits. India had launched its first Moon mission in 2009 but the mission ended in failure after it failed to land on the lunar surface.