The Hakuto-R spacecraft has made it to the moon.
The lander then took a long, looping and highly energy-efficient path to the moon, finally arriving there after an engine burn that started at 9:24 p.m. EDT on Monday .
"After a controlled burn from the lander's main propulsion system lasting several minutes, the maneuver was successfully completed," ispace wrote in Tuesday's update. Hakuto-R's work is far from done, however: The lander will attempt to touch down on the moon late next month, if all goes according to plan. ispace has not yet announced a target date for that landmark try.
And it will indeed be a landmark: No privately operated spacecraft has ever landed softly on the moon. To date, the only probes to achieve the feat have been operated by the national space agencies of the U.S., the Soviet Union and China.Related stories:
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