Japanese company ispace will attempt historic moon landing on June 5

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The Japanese private spaceflight company ispace aims to make history on Thursday (June 5) with its second attempt to land on the moon.

The Resilience lander is currently orbiting the moon as it prepares to land within Mare Frigoris (“Sea of Cold”) in the northern hemisphere. The landing is scheduled for Thursday at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1917 GMT; or 4:17 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Friday, June 6), ispace announced today (June 4). This is seven minutes earlier than previously stated, after engineers fine-tuned orbital calculations.



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