Japanese company ispace said Tuesday that a "hard landing" during its attempted lunar landing in early June was due to an ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

Ispace concluded that the laser range finder failed to provide accurate data in the final phase of landing, leaving the ...

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...

The private ispace Resilience lander will land on the moon at 3:17 p.m. EDT today (June 5), but only if the company pursues ...

LRO and Chandrayaan-2 captured debris of Japan’s crashed moon lander Rangefinder failure led to Resilience’s uncontrolled high-speed descent ispace confirms crash cause and plans future missions with ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed about 50 miles above the landing site, Mare Frigoris — and snapped a photo ...

Japanese company ispace says it believes its second lunar lander mission crashed because of problems with a laser rangefinder ...

Japanese startup ispace Inc. said Tuesday its latest failure to land a spacecraft on the Moon was due to an altimeter ...

A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini ...

Japan’s ispace Pins Botched Lunar Landing On Laser Range Finder is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation ...

The photos, taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, show a dark mark and a faint halo in the Mare Frigoris region—also ...