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Topic: ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 2 to the moon

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 05-07-2025 10:49 AM ispace release <blockquote><font size="+0">[b]ispace Completes Success 6 of Mission 2 Milestones[/b]</font> [i]All Mission 2 Deep Space Orbital Maneuvers Completed[/i] ispace, inc. announced on April 24 that its RESILIENCE lunar lander successfully completed all deep space orbital maneuvers at 10:00 UTC (7:00 pm JST) that day in advance of a planned lunar orbit insertion. This marks the completion of Success 6 milestone of Mission 2 "SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon." ispace engineers performed the final orbit maneuver from the Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan in accordance with the mission operation plan. In total, the RESILIENCE lunar lander has completed 8 orbit control maneuvers. RESILIENCE is now maintaining a stable attitude in its planned orbit and mission operations specialists are now preparing for the Mission 2 milestone Success 7, "Entering Lunar Orbit." The RESILIENCE lander is expected to enter lunar orbit on May 7, 2025. "After successfully completing a lunar flyby and spending approximately two months smoothly navigating through space along with low-energy transfer orbit as we planned, the RESILIENCE lander has now completed all scheduled orbital control maneuvers," said Takeshi Hakamada, Founder & CEO of ispace. "We are fully prepared to begin its final approach to the Moon. Over the next month and a half leading up to the landing, we will remain focused and dedicated to meeting the expectations of all those supporting us." Previously, RESILIENCE completed an orbital maneuver at 19:40:18 UTC, Jan. 16, 2025, at 250,000 kilometers from Earth, setting the lander on a course towards the Moon in order to complete the flyby and verifying operation of the main propulsion system, as well as the related guidance, control, and navigation system. The orbital maneuver required a main thruster burn lasting 16 seconds. Following this, the lander continued its deep space journey, spending approximately two months in a low-energy transfer orbit before reaching a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers from Earth, the farthest point from Earth.</blockquote>
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