section_path: 21st century uncrewed soft landings and attempts/Hakuto-R Mission 1 (Japan)
section_name: Hakuto-R Mission 1 (Japan)
paragraph_text: Hakuto-R Mission 1 (Japan)
  
  Hakuto-R Mission 1 was a commercial lander developed by ispace_Inc.. It was launched on 11 December 2022 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on a low-energy transfer trajectory that entered Lunar orbit 21 March 2023. An attempted landing on 25 April 2023 failed due to software misinterpretation of laser altimeter data.