4 Jun, 2025
RESILIENCE Lunar Lander remains in 100 km circular orbit around the Moon
TOKYO–June 4, 2025–ispace, inc. (ispace) (TOKYO: 9348), a global lunar exploration company, announced today that timing for the RESILIENCE lunar lander to touchdown on the lunar surface has been updated to 4:17 a.m. JST on June 6, 2025 JST (19:17 UTC, June 5, 2025). This is seven minutes earlier than previously announced.
| Landing Time: | Friday, June 6, 2025, JST |
| Landing: 4:17 am JST (19:17 UTC) | |
| Landing Site: | Near the center of Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) |
| 60.5 degrees north latitude and 4.6 degrees west longitude |
*Date and time are subject to change based on operational conditions.
After RESILIENCE completed a lunar orbital control maneuver at 5:27 p.m. JST (08:27 UTC) on May 28, 2025, to move into a circular orbit around the Moon, ispace engineers in the Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan worked to confirm the precise orbit. Their review of the orbit, the performance of the spacecraft, and the landing sequence have resulted in an updated landing time.
LANDING EVENT LIVE STREAM DETAILS
ispace will host a global live stream event with coverage of RESILIENCE’s landing attempt on the Moon on June 6, 2025 (JST) (June 5, 2025, depending on location). The coverage will be broadcast in Japanese with English translation provided. Please see links below to watch.
Links:
English: www.ispace-inc.com/landing
Japanese: https://ispace-inc.com/chakuriku
Livestream begins: 3:10 am JST (18:10 UTC) (tentative)
About ispace, inc. (https://ispace-inc.com)
ispace, a global lunar resource development company with the vision, “Expand our planet. Expand our future.”, specializes in designing and building lunar landers and rovers. ispace aims to extend the sphere of human life into space and create a sustainable world by providing high-frequency, low-cost transportation services to the Moon. The company has business entities in Japan, Luxembourg, and the United States with more than 300 employees worldwide. For more information, visit: www.ispace-inc.com and follow us on X: @ispace_inc.