The spacecraft was targeting to land on the Moon's Sea of Cold in the Northern Hemisphere when Mission Control in Tokyo lost communications and telemetry with the spacecraft.
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00:00Nobody blinked, nobody breathed.
00:06Japan's private lunar lander resilience was just 5 km from making history.
00:14And then, silence.
00:21In a dramatic descent streamed live around the world,
00:24the iSpace built lander looked flawless,
00:27slowing down, pitching up, entering its final approach to the moon.
00:31Then, in the most critical seconds, telemetry vanished.
00:37The live stream cut.
00:41And since then, nothing.
00:43This was iSpace's second failed landing attempt.
00:47Their first try in 2023 also ended in a crash.
00:52The lander was carrying two big things.
00:54A European built rover named Tenacious.
00:57And a tiny red art installation.
00:59A house of Swedish artist, Michael Jenberg.
01:03But here's the twist.
01:04iSpace isn't giving up.
01:06They've got 7 more missions planned through 2029.
01:09And they're even working with NASA.
01:11So is this a failure?
01:13Maybe.
01:14Maybe.
01:15Maybe.
01:16Maybe.
01:17Maybe.
01:18Maybe.
01:20Maybe.
01:21Maybe.
01:22Maybe.
01:23Maybe.
01:24Maybe.
01:25It's a little local research on many ways.
01:26So that's the history of Venus?
01:27Is it perfect?
01:28Maybe.
01:29Why are you illustrating?
01:31Bo him?
01:33Bo he is small,
01:34one of fianeras.
01:36And he bodies not like terrace.