Japan's Ispace delays NASA-sponsored moon landing to 2030

A model of lunar lander "Resilience," operated by ispace, is displayed at a venue where ispace employees monitored the company's attempt to land on the moon, in Tokyo, on June 6
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Japanese spacecraft startup Ispace said on Friday it would further delay ⁠a U.S
government-sponsored lunar mission to 2030 and cut its global workforce, in a strategic shift after two failed lunar landings.The announcement highlights the murky outlook for the venture, as the U.S
revamps space missions with commercial and international partners to send ​astronauts to the moon before China does.Tokyo-based Ispace said it would consolidate ‌moon-lander development across its Japanese and U.S
units and push ​back a launch commissioned under NASA's commercial lunar payload services program by three years from 2027, following previous delays.

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