The mission will utilize the company's Resilience lander, which is set to carry a rover named Tenacious to the Moon's northern hemisphere. The launch is scheduled to take place from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
If successful, ispace would become the first Japanese private entity to achieve a soft landing on the lunar surface. The company's inaugural landing attempt in April 2023 resulted in a crash during the final descent phase.
The announcement comes after U.S.-based Intuitive Machines became the world's first private company to land a spacecraft on the Moon successfully in February.
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