The Japanese mission #HAKUTO-R was supposed to land on the Moon 2 days ago, but it is now believed that the spacecraft crashed into the surface. This spacecraft was built by the privately funded company #ispace.

This failure follows on the crash of the #Beresheet lander on April 11 2019 that was built by the private Israeli company #SpaceIL.

This year we will see three more landing attempts by the private US companies #Astrobotics and #IntuitiveMachines.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01441-y

#Beresheet
"The #ceremony of installing the disk containing the #LunarLibrary in the #spacecraft was a #publicity stunt. Delivering the spacecraft to the #LaunchSite was also a #show for the #media – from the transport to Ben Gurion #Airport with the completely #unnecessary #police escort, to its loading onto the cargo plane ✈️.
It seems that the #debate over whether #tardigrades can #survive on the #moon has reached well beyond the #space buffs’ circles https://davidson.weizmann.ac.il/en/online/sciencepanorama/what-happened-beresheet

#SpaceCompany #SpaceIL #marketing

RT @EladRatson@twitter.com
Just received from SpaceIL communication team what appears to be the last image #Beresheet spacecraft managed to beam to earth before it crashed on the moons surface

Isn’t it refreshing when a moonshot is an actual moon shot?

RT @TeamSpaceIL@twitter.com

Don’t stop believing! We came close but unfortunately didn’t succeed with the landing process. More updates to follow.
#SpaceIL #Beresheet

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TeamSpaceIL/status/1116430572551852032

#SpaceIL #Beresheet #IsraelToTheMoon A little while ago the Israeli lander Beresheet attempted a Moon landing but something didn’t work perfectly in its propulsion system and probably crashed on the Moon’s surface. https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2019/04/11/the-landing-on-the-moon-of-the-israeli-lander-beresheet-didnt-succeed/

:( Beresheet
Your achievement is amazing! So sorry the landing didn't work out. I hope you can try again. #beresheet #moon #spaceil
https://social.vaughnhannon.com/2019/04/11/beresheet/
#beresheet #israel #moon #spaceil

RT @TeamSpaceIL: Here is the Youtube Live broadcast for the Moon landing. #Beresheet will start the landing process at approximately 22:05 Israeli time (UTC 03:00), which will take around 25 minutes. https://t.co/vnCsVpauAs
#IsraelToTheMoon #SpaceIL

RT @cgbassa@twitter.com: Signal lost at 19:23:01UTC. Probably when #Beresheet crashed into the lunar surface. Too bad for #Beresheet, but great achievement overall by @TeamSpaceIL!

https://twitter.com/cgbassa/status/1116422601709162498

Awww sorry you didn’t make it little #Beresheet 😔

Here’s a #Beresheet question: Why does the Battery Charge go down so swiftly whenever the engines are firing?

LIVE: Ready to watch a spacecraft land on the Moon?

Today, @TeamSpaceIL's #Beresheet attempts to become the 1st private robotic mission to touch down on the lunar surface. On board: our science instrument to help future Moon landers navigate. Watch: https://go.nasa.gov/2G7alFo pic.twitter.com/76McE2N4ff https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1116412263609569280

Today, for the 1st time, a private robotic spacecraft attempts a Moon landing! @TeamSpaceIL's #Beresheet carries one of our science instruments — an example of how we'll work with partners to pave the way to returning astronauts to the Moon by 2024. More: https://go.nasa.gov/2G6SsXg pic.twitter.com/QpH3SJhqWF https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1116376737171025925

RT @PeterDiamandis@twitter.com

Today, April 11th, the Israeli SpaceIL spacecraft called #Beresheet (which means ‘Genesis’) will attempt to land on the Moon’s surface in the Sea of Serenity around 11:45am PT / 2:45pm ET. #IsraelToTheMoon 🌎🚀

To watch the SpaceIL Landing go here: http://www.visit.spaceil.com/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PeterDiamandis/status/1116307789763305472

RT @TeamSpaceIL@twitter.com
Moon capture! 🇮🇱
Critical lunar orbit capture took place successfully. #Beresheet is now entering an elliptical course around the #moon, as we get closer to the historical landing #11.4.📷 Eliran Avital #Israeltothemoon @ILSpaceAgency@twitter.com #spaceil

Following the journey of moon lander #Beresheet by plotting the evolution of the targeted basic orbit parameters.
Thanks @TeamSpaceIL@twitter.com for making this possible by publishing a detailed mission timeline!

https://gitlab.com/kerel-fs/jupyter-notebooks/blob/master/beresheet/Beresheet.ipynb

RT @df2mz@twitter.com: This is likely @TeamSpaceIL #Beresheet 's downlink signal on 2280.0 MHz https://twitter.com/df2mz/status/1098891681804492800

Congratulations for the signal acquisition from this new space probe @DF2MZ!

RT @TeamSpaceIL@twitter.com
Beresheet Launched successfully! 🇮🇱
We received the first sign of life & data from #Beresheet & the #spacecraft deployed its landing legs as expected. 🙌 #israeltothemoon @ILAeros@ILAerospaceIAI@twitter.comce@ILSpaceAgency@twitter.com/t.co/Lmc9LhGaoo