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 ...

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

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

Japanese aerospace and robotics company iSpace has announced why it believes its recent attempt to land its Resilience ...

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

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

A laser navigation error led to the crash of ispace's Resilience lunar lander. The mishap marked ispace's second unsuccessful ...

Japanese startup ispace Inc. said Tuesday its latest failure to land a spacecraft on the Moon was due to an altimeter abnormality, while vowing to pursue another attempt in 2027. The Tokyo-based ...

After losing contact with it for several hours, a privately owned Japanese company said its lunar lander had crashed into the surface of moon in what the company, ispace, confirmed was a failed ...

In a press release, ispace stated that based on available information, a laser rangefinder used to measure the distance of the moon’s surface had delays in collecting measurements.