Japanese company ispace will attempt historic moon landing today

Japanese company ispace will attempt moon landing today | Building the 'Moonhouse': Q&A with artist Mikael Genberg | See Resilience's landing zone on the lunar surface Created for ceo.studentlike.spuniv@blogger.com | Web Version June 5, 2025 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE   The Launchpad (ispace) Japanese company ispace will attempt moon landing today Japanese spaceflight company ispace aims to make history today with its second attempt to land on the moon. The Resilience lander is currently orbiting the moon as it prepares to land within Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold") in the moon's northern hemisphere. The landing is scheduled for 3:17 p.m. EDT (1917 GMT; or 4:17 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Friday, June 6). Watch the landing attempt live via ispace, and on Space.com. Read More (The Moonhouse) Building the 'Moonhouse': Q&A with artist Mikael Genberg A dream that Mikael Genberg has nurtured for more than a quarter century could come true today (June 5). The Swedish artist's "Moonhouse," a project he devised way back in 1999, is set to touch down on the moon this afternoon aboard Resilience. The artwork - a tiny replica of the red-and-white houses that dot the Swedish countryside - is mounted on the front bumper of Tenacious, a microrover built by ispace's European subsidiary. If Resilience touches down safely today and everything thereafter goes to plan as well, Tenacious will deploy from the lander and drop the Moonhouse onto the lunar dirt, giving the gray landscape a solitary spark of vibrant color. Read More Skywatching (NASA) See Resilience's landing zone on the lunar surface Resilience is far too small to be seen from Earth, but its approximate landing site on the lunar surface is easily identifiable, if you know where to look. In the nights surrounding June 5, look toward the southeastern sky - the moon will become more visible after sunset. Read More Spaceflight (Axiom Space) 'Joy,' a plush baby swan, will launch with Axiom Mission-4 The Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) astronauts, including American commander Peggy Whitson, Indian pilot Shubhanshu Shukla and mission specialists Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary, chose a small plush swan named "Joy" as their zero-gravity indicator. The doll, attached to a tether, will be released to float aboard the SpaceX Dragon capsule, signaling that the Ax-4 crew safely made it into low Earth orbit. Read More Science & Astronomy (Mark Garlick/Science Photo Libary/Getty Images) Magnetic fields appear to be as old as the universe itself The debate between the two origin stories for the universe's magnetic fields has raged for years in the astronomical community. A pair of researchers based in Italy took on the challenge by measuring giant magnetic fields in the filaments of the cosmic web and then comparing those measurements with mock observations of simulated magnetic fields, to see if these filaments could be used to tease apart the two origin scenarios. Read More SpaceX (SpaceX) SpaceX launches Starlink stack from Vandenberg (photos) SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink satellites from California yesterday. A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX's Starlink 11-22 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base today at 7:40 p.m. EDT (2340 GMT; 4:40 p.m. local time in California). The stack of 27 Starlink satellites began their journey into low Earth orbit (LEO) aboard a Falcon 9 first-stage booster designated B1063. This was the 26th launch of B1063, which has now supported 18 Starlink missions. Read More Technology (ESA/DLR – M. Diegeler) Europe stages moon landing to improve lunar photography Pictures from a simulated moon landing, not designed to fool anyone into believing a fake but rather to provide a reference to make sure that we can get the best video images possible when astronauts finally do return to the moon, have been released by the European Space Agency (ESA). Read More   Sign Up  |    Update Profile  |    Unsubscribe Privacy Policy  |    Cookies Policy  |    Terms and Conditions CONTACT US: FEEDBACK  |    ADVERTISE Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036