ESA ground stations to support first commercial Moon landing
Mission 1 is the first mission of the HAKUTO-R lunar exploration programme from the company ispace, based in Tokyo, Japan, with offices in Luxembourg and the US. It will be launched into a low-energy transfer orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the Moon. The journey will take three to five months and see the spacecraft venture out to deep space and back again. Once on the Moon, it will co