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 ...

June 24 (UPI) --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.In the analysis of the ...

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

Private Japanese firm ispace, which failed at its second Moon landing in June, has revealed what caused its HAKUTO-R lander ...

Today (June 24), ispace released a statement detailing just what went wrong with the lander, named Resilience.The company said the spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly ...

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

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

A Japanese company says a laser navigating tool doomed its lunar lander, causing it to crash into the moon. Officials for ispace announced the news from Tokyo on Tuesday. The crash landing earlier ...

June 24 (UPI) --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.In the analysis of the "SMBC ...