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 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.

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 ...

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

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

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

Tokyo-based venture firm ispace says its second failed attempt to land a lunar lander on the surface of the moon was due to a problem with hardware used to measure the lander's altitude.

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 ...

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