NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

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

Private Japanese firm ispace, which failed at its second Moon landing in June, has revealed what caused its HAKUTO-R lander ...

Japanese company ispace confirms that a fault in the laser range finder of the Resilience lander caused the spacecraft to ...

During a press conference on Thursday night (Friday morning in Japan where it was held), ispace officials revealed that the HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE crashed onto the moon’s surface ...

Even before Resilience’s landing attempt, ispace-U.S. incorporated lessons learned from ispace-Japan’s first mission in 2023. ispace-U.S.’s next generation lander, called APEX-1.0 builds ...

Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.

The Japanese company ispace that attempted to send a lunar lander to the moon in 2023 plans to launch its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 in mid-January. ... The mission specs for RESILIENCE and TENACIOUS.

The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is equipped with a 0.25-meter Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) which offers views of the Moon at incredible detail. Its data has also been of immense value to other ...

The photos, taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, show a dark mark and a faint halo in the Mare Frigoris region—also known as the Sea of Cold—where ispace’s “Resilience” lander and its mini ...

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

The incident echoes ispace’s first mission failure in 2023, when a software malfunction led to a crash during the final stage ...