Artemis 1's OMOTENASHI Moon Lander ABANDONS Mission..

Artemis 1's OMOTENASHI Moon Lander ABANDONS Mission..

Welcome back to Tech Vault. A tiny Japanese moon lander won't make it to the lunar surface after all. Trackers of the OMOTENASHI moon spacecraft, a rideshare with NASA's Artemis 1 mission that launched on Nov. 16, failed to pick up the cubesat's wobbly signal in time for its planned lunar landing, Japanese officials said on Twitter.

NASA’s Luna-H Map cubesat launched aboard SLS on November 16 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, along with 9 other miniature satellites as secondary payloads. The lunar cubesat is tasked with a mission to measure the amount of water-ice hiding in the Moon’s shadowed regions. However, the tiny probe failed to perform a crucial manoeuvre on Monday ahead of its planned lunar flyby. NASA is still hoping to resolve Luna-H Map’s glitch over the next few months in an effort to salvage the mission, the space agency wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.

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