Here is a lives stream from WGN News covering the first attempt by a private business to land a vehicle on the Moon:
LIVE | Tokyo’s ispace company put its own spacecraft into orbit around the moon a month ago. Today flight controllers will direct the craft, named Hakuto, Japanese for white rabbit, to descend from 60 miles (100 kilometers) high and land.
At 12pm CST, the iSpace team is believed to have possibly lost contact with the unmanned lander Hakuto. It’s status is unknown currently.
We’ve received another incredible photo from the camera onboard our Mission 1 lander!
Seen here is the lunar Earthrise during solar eclipse, captured by the lander-mounted camera at an altitude of about 100 km from the lunar surface. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/pNSI4lPnux
— ispace (@ispace_inc) April 24, 2023
NASA will return to the Moon with the upcoming Artemis II in November 2024.
