Japanese aerospace and robotics company iSpace has announced why it believes its recent attempt to land its Resilience spacecraft on the moon failed. It was all reportedly down to a misfiring laser ...

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

The company's Reslience lunar lander will attempt to touch down in Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basalt plain in the moon's northern hemisphere, on Thursday (June 5) at 3:24 p.m. EDT (1924 GMT).

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

ISpace's private Resilience Lander will attempt to touch down on the Mare Frigoris region of the moon's surface on June 5, at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1817 GMT). While you won’t be able to see the lander ...

Resilience, a spacecraft built by Japan-based company Ispace, crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon. If successful, it would have been the first private-sector lunar lander built ...

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

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

Takeshi Hakamada, ispace's president and founder, revealed that the HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lander is believed to have crashed while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday, June 05, 2025.

ispace's HAKUTO-R Mission 2 approaches the moon on Friday, May 16, 2025. HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE and lunar rover TENACIOUS are expected to land on the moon on Thursday, June 05.

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