Thursday 05/June/2025 – 11:08 PM
The Japanese Lunar Laundice of the ISPAS company is preparing to try a historical landing on the surface of the moon on Thursday, June 5, where it is currently in a circular orbit at an altitude of 100 km on the surface, on its way to land in the Burden region of Mary Frigoris located in the northern half of the moon.
According to the Space website, the vehicle is scheduled to start the automated landing at 3:17 pm EST 19:17 GMT, i.e. 4:17 am Japan time on Friday, June 6, which is 7 minutes early on the previously announced date, after updating the tropical accounts accurately by the company’s engineers.
A second experience after a previous failure
Reeselins is the second ISPace attempt to reach the moon, after the failure of the first Hakoto-R1 failure in 2023, when the first vehicle lost the connection before its contact with the surface, as a result of an error in the height sensor, the new vehicle maintains a similar design but with software improvements based on that experience.
Reeselins weighs about 1000 kg, a height of 2.3 meters and a width of 2.6 meters, and its main engine will start operating automatically at 2:20 pm EST to reduce its speed and start the decline.
Various scientific and commercial load
The vehicle holds five scientific and commercial loads, including the small robot Tinacheus from the company’s branch in Luxembourg, which was equipped with a front and shovel camera for gathering samples, as well as an experiment for water analysis, an algae growing unit, and a radiological probe from Taiwan.
It also carries an artistic painting inspired by the famous Gandam series, a memory disk from UNESCO to preserve linguistic diversity, and a artistic model called “Moon House”.
A milestone in the commercial landing race
In the event of a successful landing, Reeselins will be the first Japanese special lunar landing vehicle that safely reaching the surface of the moon, and the third commercially in the world, which enhances Japanese aspirations in the lunar space economy.
The vehicle is expected to operate for a period of up to two weeks for the lunar day, before it stops due to the intense cold of the lunar night, as it will depend in its connections on the ESTRACK network of the European Space Agency.
