The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

LUMIBIRD PHOTONICS SWEDEN SECURES MAJOR NAVAL CONTRACT FOR VIDAR RANGEFINDERS WITH SAAB AND DALO The Lumibird Group (FR0000038242 - LBIRD), European leader in laser technologies, announces that its ...

The NICER telescope developed a light leak in May 2023 when several thin thermal shields were damaged and let in sunlight ...

NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space successfully launched their Axiom-4 mission early Wednesday, sending four astronauts in what is ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed about 50 miles above the landing site, Mare Frigoris — and snapped a photo ...

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

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

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

The chip runs laser pulses using a 3V battery. It needs fewer parts, saves space, and helps make small, low-power laser ...

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

Spacecraft from NASA and India's space agency have snapped orbital photos of the Japanese lunar lander Resilience after its ...

A few weeks after ispace's second Moon landing attempt ended in a crash, the Japanese company said it had already figured out the problem: the Resilience lander couldn't tell where it was in position ...