Japan's ispace Inc hoped the Hakuto-R lander would touch down on the moon - but contact has been lost.
An attempt to land the first privately-funded spacecraft on the moon appears to have failed.
But after completing its final orbit of the moon, and decelerating from 6000 kilometres per hour to a walking pace a few metres above the surface, the signal from the lander was lost."We have to assume that we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface," said Takeshi Hakamada, CEO of ispace.
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