TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s moon transportation startup ispace inc said on Thursday it would postpone a future lunar landing mission by a year to 2026 to reexamine a payload commissioned by U.S. NASA, coupled with component supply delays.
Tokyo-based ispace attempted its first lunar landing with the Hakuto-R Mission 1 spacecraft in April, which failed due to altitude miscalculation.
There is no change to the launch schedules of its second mission in 2024, ispace added in a Thursday disclosure to investors.
(Reporting by Kantaro Komiya; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
