A NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image released on 2023-05-23 revealed the HAKUTO-R M1 impact site and apparent pieces of debris from the spacecraft.
ispace planned to ship the HAKUTO-R M1 lander to Florida by early Autumn 2022 for launch preparations.
ispace previously targeted the HAKUTO-R M1 launch between 2022-11-09 and 15 but postponed the launch to no earlier than 2022-11-22.
ispace expects SpaceX to launch its HAKUTO-R M1 lunar lander on 2022-11-28 at the earliest for a mission to the moon’s surface roughly five months later.
ispace plans to launch its first HAKUTO-R M1 lander on a Falcon 9 between 2022-11-09 and 2022-11-15 from Cape Canaveral.