Japanese company ispace said its second commercial Moon landing attempt was unsuccessful after being unable to communicate with the Resilience lander following the planned touchdown time.

The company hoped to make an epic comeback this week by landing a robotic mission on a region of the Moon known as the Sea of Cold.

Two years ago, ispace attempted to make the first commercial Moon landing but lost communication with the HAKUTO-R Mission 1. On Friday (Thursday EST), the second Hakuto mission, nicknamed Resilience, was set to touch down on a 3.5 billion-year-old volcanic region of the Moon known as Mare Frigoris, or the Sea of Cold.

However, hours after the targeted touchdown on Thursday at 3:17 p.m. EST (Friday 4:17 a.m. JST), engineers at the mission control center (MCC) in Tokyo were

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