After nearly six months in space, Ispace's Resilience lander will (hopefully) touch down on the lunar surface this week.

This was the aerospace firm Ispace's second attempt at placing a spacecraft on the Moon. A third will follow in 2027.

On June 5, 2025, a private Japanese spacecraft, Resilience, experienced a sudden loss of communication with mission control ...

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the ...

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small ...

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, had problems measuring its distance to the surface and could not slow its descent ...

An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe ...

Private space company ispace officially called its second mission to the Moon a bust as well. lander, rover, and everything ...

The Tokyo-based company ispace confirmed the mission as a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.

The region is geologically significant, with surface materials dating back to different lunar epochs, making it a target of ...

A good way to find the Resilience Lander's forever home is to locate the Aristotles Crater, which sits above Mare Serenitatis ...

The company's Reslience lunar lander will attempt to touch down in Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basalt plain in the ...