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TODAY: Watch Ispace Attempt to Land on the Moon for the First Time

posted by janrinok on Tuesday April 25, @01:38PM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes:

Watch ispace attempt to land on the moon for the first time:

After five long months journeying through space, ispace's Hakuto-R lander is ready to greet the lunar surface.The Japanese company is expecting to land Hakuto-R at 12:40 PM EST today. If successful, this first mission will no doubt be a huge boon for ispace's ambitious plans to send two subsequent landers to the moon in 2024 and 2025. It would also make them the first private company to land on the moon, and the first spacecraft from Japan to do so. (China, the United States, and the USSR have been the only nations to reach the lunar surface.)This first mission, appropriately named Mission 1, kicked off last December when a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the lander into space. Since then, the lander has performed a number of maneuvers to stay on track in its path to the moon. At its farthest point, Hakuto-R traveled as much as 1.4 million kilometers from Earth.

The livestream will kick-off one hour prior to landing at 11:40 EST.

Link to stream.

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  • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday April 25, @01:57PM (3 children)

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 25, @01:57PM (#1303043) Journal

    Eastern Standard Time (EST) is UTC -0500, so the streaming is scheduled to start 16:40 UTC.

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  • (Score: 1) by TheKLB on Tuesday April 25, @02:04PM

    by TheKLB (5880) on Tuesday April 25, @02:04PM (#1303044)

    Except EST isn't a thing right now... we're currently living in EDT, which is UTC -4.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25, @02:53PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25, @02:53PM (#1303057)

    The livestream link is currently showing about -7 minutes, so it appears the stream will start at 11am EDT.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25, @03:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25, @03:13PM (#1303065)

      Or not... the countdown stopped/froze at 11am EDT (3pm UTC).

      In the meantime, YouTube offered up a concert in LA by The Comet Is Coming (just pre-Covid),
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbsK1_goV_0 [youtube.com]