Japan space firm to make 2nd attempt in Dec. to send rover to Moon

Japanese space startup ispace Inc. said Thursday its lunar lander carrying a rover and equipment for experiments will be launched in December at the earliest in its second attempt following a failure last year.The lander Resilience will lift off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to send the rover Tenacious to the Moon's northern hemisphere. If successful, ispace will become the first Japanese private company to land a spacecraft on the moon.The startup, aiming to establish a transport service between the Earth and the Moon, conducted its first lunar lan…READ FULL ARTICLE