Nipponese space ship’s company ispace has a commission that has easy made its way to lunar space , and in the descend weeks will set about to land on the Moon . There ’s a crucial event ahead of that , and it is getting into lunar celestial orbit . That will happen today , May 7 , 2025 .

This is the second prison term the company is attempting a synodic month landing place . Thefirst attempt in 2023ended with a crash - landing , likely due to a exit of propellant in the final stagecoach , meaning the Hakuto - R Mission 1 slam hard on the lunar Earth’s surface .

moonshine - landing is difficult , as we have seen in the last few yr with a few mission soft landing place on their sides , like fellow Japanese missionSLIM . The hope for the Hakuto - R Mission 2 , also known as RESILIENCE , is that everything goes smoothly from now onwards .

The lander carries multiple piece of equipment including a piss electrolyzer , a food output experiment , and a deep radiation probe . It also carry a memory phonograph recording developed together with UNESCO that stop 275 languages and other ethnical artefact . For the gum anime fans , the caller get together with Bandai Namco Research Institute to make a commemorative admixture photographic plate model afterGundam ’s “ Charter of the Universal Century . ”

There is also a special art piece calledMoonhousethat is traveling on RESILIENCE . It will be placed on the aerofoil by lunar rover TENACIOUS , once the robot is allowed to roam the surface . The wanderer will analyse the regolith , the lunar grease .

“ After successfully completing a lunar flyby and spending approximately two months smoothly navigating through space along with low-pitched - energy transference orbit as we design , the RESILIENCE lander has now completed all scheduled orbital control maneuvers , ” Takeshi Hakamada , Founder & CEO of ispace , said in astatement . “ We are amply fain to begin its final approach to the Moon . Over the next month and a one-half lead up to the landing , we will remain focussed and consecrate to meet the prospect of all those supporting us . ”

RESILIENCE was launched on January 15 , together with Blue Ghost Mission 1 , a lunar mission that successfullylanded on the Moonon March 2 . The difference in timing is due to the difference in advance to getting to the Moon , with ispace favoring a low - energy transfer that took the mission almost three times as far as the Moon is from Earth .

The company aims to land RESILIENCE in the northerly region of Mare Frigoris ( Sea of Cold ) no sooner than June 6 .