KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Japanese company ispace announced that it believes its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander has been lost while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday afternoon. This ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — After launching from Florida's space coast and cruising toward the moon for the last five months, the Japanese company ispace is preparing to touch down its lunar lander ...

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In science-fiction stories, companies often mine the moon or asteroids. While this may seem far-fetched, this idea is edging ...

But players like iSpace Europe welcome the new regulation as a positive step for Europe’s growing space ecosystem ...

It’s hard to land on the moon, technically. We know it’s not easy. It’s not something that everyone can do.” These words of ...

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

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

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

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

This is the second software error that has caused iSpace lunar lander crashes in as many years.