LIVE Japan's ispace | Resilience Spacecraft’s Status After Moon-Landing Attempt Is Unknown N18G

Ispace’s Resilience lander did not take a direct route to the moon, like some spacecraft that went before it, zooming to the lunar surface in mere days.

Resilience instead took a slow, swooping path to the moon that took over four months. (Such a gradual trip required little fuel, which is one way the company has managed to keep Resilience’s price tag down.)

During that time, three teams of Ispace employees have been rotating in and out of the company’s mission control room in Tokyo. Ispace hasn’t needed large teams “on console” — the aerospace term for when an engineer is managing data on a computer in mission control — but at least some engineers have been keeping a close eye over the vehicle during every stretch of this mission.

That experience is extremely valuable, Ispace’s founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada and chief financial officer Jumpei Nozaki told CNN in interviews conducted earlier this year.
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