Two private spacecraft of America and Japan set out on a journey to the Moon, know what is the mission

Canaveral: New stories of mankind's victory over the moon are becoming common every day. Recently in 2023, India had succeeded in soft landing on the moon. In the year 2024, an American private company had achieved this feat. Then, registering a historic achievement, the first private spacecraft 'Odysseus' succeeded in landing on the moon and sending signals.

On the same lines, now a private American space transportation service company 'SpaceX' today launched two moon orbiters for American and Japanese companies. At the same time, both these Chandrayaans were launched by rocket at midnight from the Kennedy Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which are the new such vehicles in the series of private spacecraft going to the Moon.

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Please note that this is the second attempt by Tokyo-based 'iSpace', whose first spacecraft had crashed on the Moon two years ago. This time, the study carries a rover with a 'scoop' to collect lunar soil and plans to test potential food and water sources for future researchers.

New Texas-based 'Firefly Aerospace' is conducting 10 experiments for NASA for research on the Moon. Firefly, named after a species of fireflies in the southeastern United States, will be the first to reach the Moon.

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The name of the spacecraft of 'iSpace' is 'Resilience' which is slightly bigger than the spacecraft of 'Firefly'. Resilience will take four to five months to reach the Moon and aims to land at Mare Frigoris on the far side of the Moon in late May or early June. “We don't think this is a race to get ahead,” Takeshi Hakamada, iSpace's founding CEO, said from Cape Canaveral this week. Some people say there is a race to reach the moon, but this is not about that.”

(with agency input)