Lift-off postponed for 'additional pre-flight checkouts'
SpaceX postponed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a lunar lander and rover built by a private Japanese aerospace company and the United Arab Emirates Space Agency rover to the Moon, by one day.
The medium-lift launch vehicle, originally scheduled to fly at 0339 ET on Wednesday 30 November, is now expected to launch on Thursday 1 December at 0337 . SpaceXthe decision to push back the initial launch hours before Falcon 9 was due to take off, citing the need to perform"additional pre-flight checkouts" on Twitter.
The HAKUTO-R Mission 1, led by ispace, a private company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan will attempt the first commercial landing of a spacecraft on the Moon. ispace's Series 1 Lander will be tasked with lowering Rashid, a rover built by the UAE Space Agency, safely into the Atlas Crater, an 87-kilometre-wide structure formed by an ancient impact event, located in the Northeastern region.
"We believe Mission 1 will be the turning point in commercial space exploration," ispace's founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada previously said in aRashid is a compact four-wheeled rover weighing just 10 kilograms, making it smaller than the Chinese Yutu-2, the last rover that made it onto the Moon in 2018.
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