Tokyo-based lunar exploration company ispace says they have lost contact with Hakuto-R, their first spacecraft that was scheduled to land on the Moon today. The lunar lander launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida last December and would have made Japan the fourth country to land on the moon after the United States, China, and the former Soviet Union.
Huge disappointment for the Japanese and the world. We were eagerly awaiting the landing.
Sore wa taihen desu! Gomen na sai.
eh?
Japanese: That, (failure to make the 1st landing, is) so terrible. So sorry. (formal apology)
I may have disclosed a long time ago that I was stationed in Okinawa for two years. I took two semesters of Japanese at an extension campus located on Kadena Air Base.
Basic translation:
“That’s terrible! I’m so sorry.”
Can you read it as well? ありがとうございました
Watakashi wa decanai. Honto! Katakana dake.
Do itashi maste.
Gaggle translate dame desu, yo!
I’m not big. Really! Only stubborn.
It’s been a while.
It’s useless, yo!