The launch of a Japanese moon lander took place.
The Hakuto-R lander, which was built by Tokyo-based company ispace, and NASA's lunar Flashlight cubesat were scheduled to launch on Thursday. The time is 0837GMT. That is not the plan anymore.
A new target launch date will be shared once confirmed after further inspections of the launch vehicle and data review.
The moon rover will be carried to the lunar surface by the Japanese ispace landers.
It was the second delay for the mission, and it was pushed back a day to allow for more pre-flight checkouts.
The ispace's Mission 1 will be the fourth flight for the Falcon 9. The SES-22 communications satellite and three batches of Starlink internet satellites were lofted by its first stage, according to a description of the upcoming moon mission.
Ispace wants to see how Hakuto-R performs in deep space and on the moon.
The journey to the moon will take roughly four months. Only the space agencies of the United States, China and the Soviet Union have achieved soft landings on the moon.
The nation's first moon rover, a 22-pound (10 kilograms) robot named Rashid, will deploy from Hakuto-R and study its surroundings for about 14 Earth days if all goes according to plan.
NASA is involved in the upcoming flight. The moon's south pole is where NASA plans to build a moon base via its Artemis program.
After three months in deep space, the cubesat will reach the moon, where it will do its work.
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